'The Advantages Were All Theirs': What Famed War Correspondent Ernie Pyle Saw on D-Day Ernie Pyle was the United States' most well-known war correspondent during World War II, serving as the de facto eyes and...
A Paratrooper Started D-Day by Hanging from His Chute on a Church Pvt. John Steele's unit parachuted in the wrong place, while Steele himself was unlucky enough to get his chute caught on a...
Idris Elba Explores the Lost Stories of World War II Service Members of Color in Nat Geo's 'Erased' In the timeline of a conflict as long and sprawling as World War II, even the most courageous stories of valor were bound to...
How You Can Help the 'Band of Brothers' Cast Recreate Easy Company's Drop into Normandy 80 Years Later Donations to the nonprofit event will cover the cost of the "Placid Lassie" C-47 Skytrain, equipment for the jump and...
A D-Day Vet Escapes to Normandy Beach in Heartwarming Michael Caine Movie "The Great Escaper," a new movie from Pathé Films, stars Michael Caine as Jordan, retelling the story of his "great escape"...
While Hitler Snored: D-Day, Rommel and the Panzers "The question is, would a different deployment of the Panzer units have affected the outcome of D-Day?"
D-Day Veteran Explains to His Daughters What World War II Was Like D-Day veteran Roy Arnn writes a letter to his daughters, Lynn and Su An, explaining some of the events he endured during...
How Martha Gellhorn Became the Only Female Journalist at D-Day As a female war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn was not allowed to accompany the Allied invasion force that stormed the...
Forensic Teams Work to Identify Remains of American POWs Killed in Tokyo Firebombing During World War II The project has shed light on the long-ago deaths of service members killed in the U.S. push for a Japanese surrender during...
'The Cold Blue' Gives a Legendary Filmmaker's Never-Before-Seen World War II Footage a New Life In 2018, Erik Nelson not only released "The Cold Blue" using only William Wyler's outtakes, but restored the original...
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...