6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.
The Story Behind the Two Flag Raisings at the Battle of Iwo Jima Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.
This Czech Knight Resisted Nazi Aggression When the World Abandoned His Country Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...
'Combat Con Artists' of World War II Who Hoodwinked Nazis Get Long Overdue Top Honor from Congress From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks...
France Honors Foreign Resistance Fighters as WWII Hero Manouchian Is Inducted into the Panthéon While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian's Resistance fighters in...
Solemn Monument to Japanese American WWII Detainees Lists More Than 125,000 Names A team of researchers spent more than three years reaching out to camp survivors and their relatives.
Pearl Harbor Survivor Sterling Robert Cale Dies at 102 Sterling Robert Cale, a Pearl Harbor survivor who served throughout World War II, and also in Korea and Vietnam, and then met...
Why the Los Baños Raid of World War II Is Considered a 'Textbook Airborne Operation’ For this four-phase plan to work, all four steps would have to begin simultaneously -- no small feat for an operation that...
How a Navy Destroyer Almost Killed FDR with a Torpedo A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was...
5 Essential Movies and Shows About the Battle of Iwo Jima One of the most important battles of World War II has inspired some outstanding entertainment.
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...