Military culture, history, memorialization, and the stories that anchor what came before — from WWII to GWOT.
Throughout history, there have been moments when sports represented something far greater than athletic competition. As the world drifted toward World War II , the two heavyweight boxing matches...
Flip them down slowly, and your worldview will instantly change. Not in a dramatic way, or in a Hollywood CGI slopfest sort of way.
As I reflect on my early days working at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, out of all the colleagues and volunteers I’ve worked with, one name stands out: Duery Felton.
Thanks to the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Joseph L. Burke finally received the honorable burial he earned.
“It must not be killed or shot at except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.” That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists,.
Calvin Graham faced the biggest test of his young life when he tried to enlist in the United States Navy in 1942. The baby-faced Graham was only 12 years old at the time and did everything he could...
Pyrrhus of Epirus was known for a few things, including his success on the battlefield, despite his name being forever associated with a term that basically means defeat: a Pyrrhic victory He was a...
Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a...
The Fedayeen Saddam were loyal to one man: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Established in 1995, the Fedayeen Saddam was an irregular unit designed to protect the Ba’athist regime and the Iraqi...
Just when the entire U.S. Army had begun to believe the war would be over by Christmas, a surprise German offensive smashed through the Ardennes. The Allied forces were completely unprepared.
On June 6, 1944, members of the Army’s 149th engineer Combat Battalion, 60th Medical Battalion and 50th Medical Collecting Company were ready to storm the beach in the forward hold of the LCI(L),...
Lacking much formal education because of difficult family circumstances, Percy Spencer was determined to learn on his own.
By 1952, the Korean War wasn’t going well for the North Koreans. The war had ground in a stalemate at the 38th parallel, but that fact had nothing to do with anything the North Koreans had planned.
It must have seemed like a relatively harmless work detail, in the way that any detail in the world’s most heavily armed border area can be harmless. When Capt. Arthur Bonifas and Lt.
The Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas has a new collection: 80 painstakingly accurate World War I paintings that tell the history behind the real-life aerial kills credited to the famed German...
Let’s be clear: if the German high command had any respect for American generals at the outset of World War II, they would never have declared war in the first place.
This isn’t the far-right “Nazi” of the modern era: we’re talking about an AI-driven database that helps you search for Nazi Party family members by name.
Heroism takes many forms in war. It may emerge amid an epic battle, or the drama may focus on a single life struggling to keep alive in a shell hole.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was an entirely avoidable, but potentially deadly period in Cold War history. In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat in the Soviet Union, sent a telegram to President...
By October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the defensive. Allied forces in the Pacific had pushed back the gains Japan made in the years following its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
A “sonic thump” may not have the same awesomeness factor as a sonic boom, but it still has the right stuff. And like it or not, it’s the new standard in supersonic flight.
YouTuber and AI-slop extraordinaire Gorm The Old has released new videos that might soon be his greatest hits: Summaries of the most important events of World War I and World War II, animated...
When the Human Genome Project was announced in 1990, its leaders specified three main goals . They sought to sequence the 3.
As Joe Kittinger fell more than 76,000 feet out of the sky, his parachute failed to deploy. The mishap in late 1959 caused Kittinger to spin horizontally at about 90 revolutions per minute and lose...
After Robert K. Preston flunked out of flight school in Texas, the United States Army reassigned him to Fort Meade in Maryland.
