This ‘Golden Girls’ Actress Was Also a US Marine Fellow Marines surely were thankful Bernice Frankel, better known as Bea Arthur, was a friend, traveling down the road and...
Kursk Was the Site of a Massive World War II Tank Battle - Now It’s at the Heart of Ukraine’s Counterattack In 2024, with a major offensive being played out once again within the Kursk oblast in western Russia, commentators wonder...
How Elvis Presley Revitalized Efforts to Build a Pearl Harbor Memorial Support for a USS Arizona memorial received a huge boost on March 25, 1961, when Elvis Presley performed a benefit concert at...
What It Was Like to Be Fighting the Japanese on V-J Day It took almost a week to convince the six to seven thousand Japanese on Cebu that the war was really over. They had to be...
V-J Day: The Formal Surrender of Japan V-J Day commemorates the Allied victory over Japan in World War II on Sept. 2, 1945.
Kishida Vows to Push Rules-Based Order as Japan's Defense Chief Visits Yasukuni 79 Years After WWII “We will never again repeat the tragedy of war” and will stick to the country’s postwar pacifist resolve, Japanese Prime...
You Can Thank the US Army for Americans Brushing Their Teeth Daily It was only after World War II that returning U.S. troops, who were forced to brush their teeth as part of the U.S. Army's...
How a Medal of Honor Recipient Inspired a ‘Fighting Team Which Could Not Be Stopped’ James P. Connor received the Medal of Honor after leading his troops through an impenetrable wall of mortars.
9 Things Every American Should Know About the Navajo Code Talkers Navajo Code Talkers, who once faced restrictions on speaking about their crucial role in World War II, are now celebrated as...
How Julia Child Helped the Navy Develop a Shark Repellent During World War II While Child was not one of the driving forces behind the U.S. Navy's quest to develop a shark repellent during World War II...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
