Military culture, history, memorialization, and the stories that anchor what came before — from WWII to GWOT.
The creators of the future Global War on Terrorism memorial say they based their design around a single question posed to veterans, military families and others associated with the war: How did they...
Eddie Slovik didn’t have an idyllic childhood. He consistently found trouble while growing up in Detroit, bouncing between reform schools and serving time in jail.
Women Veterans Recognition Day is celebrated on June 12th to honor the service and sacrifice of women who have worn the uniform, while also recognizing a key moment that changed the course of...
The Revolutionary War ended long before photography was a refined process, but the gap between the two historic events was still enough to allow some of America’s true patriots—literally American...
A Texas lawmaker has sparked hopes to award the Medal of Honor to an Air Force pilot killed while protecting classified information during the Vietnam War. Air Force Maj. Robert A.
The foundation overseeing the design of the future Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall in Washington has unveiled the first renderings of what the site will look like.
The road leading south out of Baghdad never looked like a typical killing field you’d imagine; it looked like farmland. Canals threaded between palm groves, wheat and date plots worked by the...
In a small area of Northern France, in a town called Seringes-et-Nesles, is a cemetery filled with soldiers who died fighting to keep France from falling to the Kaiser’s Germany during World War I.
A doorman at Douglas MacArthur’s hotel stopped the legendary general as he prepared to visit the United States Military Academy for the final time.
Memorial Day has come and gone, which basically means it’s summertime, and this summer has some major blockbusters that are coming out—not to mention the big ticket flicks that have already...
Before World War II, Kathleen McCarthy Summersby (Kay for short) was an Irish fashion model. Once the Germans started dropping bombs on Britain, she stepped up and showed her grit, driving an...
James Handy, a Vietnam War veteran who spent nearly five decades as one of Hollywood’s most reliably present character actors, appearing in more than 140 films and television productions ranging from.
When Howard Vander Beek died in 2014 at the age of 97, he left behind a distinct reminder of his World War II service. Vander Beek, a lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy Reserve,...
Retired Army Col. Bruce Perry Crandall, the legendary helicopter pilot who was awarded the U.S. military’s highest decoration for valor for his bravery during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, recently...
It started as a routine transfer. Following an asset transfer from Korea, maintainers at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, accepted and processed an A-10 Warthog.
Ret. Col. Bruce Crandall, who led more than 900 combat missions during two tours in Vietnam and received the Medal of Honor for repeatedly flying his helicopter into intense enemy fire to evacuate...
For many Americans, their first introduction to Bruce Crandall was his portrayal by Greg Kinnear in the 2002 film “We Were Soldiers.
In the early 1940s, a young man from the Philippines made a decision that would define the next eight decades of his life.
“Marine Raiders, our saying is that ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ means never above you, never below you, always beside you,” Marine Corps veteran Luke Focer told a crowd gathered at SOF Week in Tampa.
Starting as early as 1939, German U-boat “Wolf Packs” transformed the Atlantic Ocean into a shipping graveyard. In response, the United States Navy upped its game, and by May 1943, aka “Black May,”...
Two years after the United States military pulled out of Vietnam in 1973, the Communists moved ever closer to overrunning South Vietnam.
You might have heard about how the weather almost capsized the Allied invasion on D-Day (literally). We’ve told this story .
Despite 81 years since the island of Iwo Jima was declared secure — and several years since these two Marines last saw one another — the first thing out of their mouths wasn’t sentimental, it was...
After Franklin D. Roosevelt returned from his meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Casablanca in January 1943, Hap Arnold knew something had to change.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest honors the United States can bestow on civilians, and the only one chosen by the President of the United States..
