How Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz Grew into a Naval Legend Chester Nimitz graduated seventh out of 114 midshipmen in his Naval Academy Class of 1905, and his World War II strategy is...
How Jesse Owens' Olympic Teammate Kept the Tuskegee Airmen Safe During World War II Because of their groundbreaking service in World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded eight Purple Hearts, 14 Bronze...
Brendan Fraser to Star as Dwight D. Eisenhower in New D-Day Movie 'Pressure' "Pressure" is about what happened at the top of the chain of command leading to the largest amphibious assault in the history...
An Alaska Veteran Is Finally Getting His Benefits — 78 Years After the 103-Year-Old Was Discharged A 103-year-old World War II veteran who’s been paying his medical bills out-of-pocket is finally getting his veterans...
US Army Honors Nisei Combat Unit that Helped Liberate Tuscany from Nazi-Fascist Forces in WWII The U.S. military is celebrating a little-known part of World War II history, honoring the Japanese-American U.S. Army unit...
Navy Exonerates 256 Black Sailors Unjustly Punished in 1944 After a Deadly California Port Explosion The whole episode was unjust, and none of the sailors received the legal due process they were owed, Navy Secretary Carlos...
Why the Only American Killed on Hitler’s Direct Order ‘Couldn’t Turn Her Back on Germany’ When Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the...
Omar Bradley's Path to Becoming the Army's Fourth Five-Star General Omar Bradley went from graduating 44th in his class at the U.S. Military Academy to becoming one of the Army's most...
Cadet Who Was Shunned at West Point Led the Legendary Tuskegee Airmen Air Force Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is the founder and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, a veteran of three wars and the son...
What You Should Know About the Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of Black pilots who helped the Allies win World War II -- and helped break the military...
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...
