Military culture, history, memorialization, and the stories that anchor what came before — from WWII to GWOT.
Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, the commander of the Navy brig USS Somers, didn’t want to make a rash decision. As First Lt. Guert Gansevoort informed him that some crew members were plotting to...
History’s totally engrossing, thoroughly addictive smash hit “Modern Marvels” is back for WWII. Three episodes of the timeless series will cover the superweapons developed by both the Axis and the...
Simo Häyhä recalled November 30, 1939, as the last night he and the other veterans, volunteers, and reservists in the Finnish Civil Guard slept well.
It’s 1990, a fictional New York street cop has recently taught a generation to fear a gun that did not actually exist. Bruce Willis, playing John McClane in “Die Hard 2,” warned that terrorists were..
As an actor, Ross McCall is used to being recognized on the street. However, the Scottish film and TV star is amazed at the amount of attention he still receives for a character he portrayed a...
As the last Marines awaited rescue from Vietnam on April 30, 1975, they gathered on the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Tired and nervous, they engaged in idle chatter.
Imagine being such a legend that someone from New York—a state you famously hated—decides to name a line of furniture after you in the 150 years after you died.
When the Japanese navy showed its overwhelming force during the Russo-Japanese War in the early 20th century, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt took notice.
In the spirit of America’s 250th anniversary, one Medal of Honor recipient reflected on the word “hope” as he considered America for future generations. Retired Army Master Sgt.
“We face an enemy that is ever growing.” That’s how Jeff Daniels (“The Newsroom”) as Ronald Reagan opens the trailer for “The Brink of War.
Finding stability and meaning through work that serves others For James Barger, joining the Air Force at 18 felt like a way to build a future and see the world beyond the small town in East Tennessee.
After actor Christopher Lee died on June 7, 2015, expressions of condolence poured in. “It’s terribly [sic] when you lose an old friend, and Christopher Lee was one of my oldest.
David Berger’s father was cramped inside an Austrian phone booth when he learned his son was dead. Berger’s parents were overseas to watch him compete for Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
War stories often end with a homecoming. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” begins there. The film delivers everything audiences expect from Homer: towering monsters, impossible voyages, brutal...
A month after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor , the United States Army took a drastic step amid the fear and hysteria gripping the nation.
In 1941, the United States Embassy gave Mildred Gillars a way out. She didn’t take it. Gillars worked for Third Reich Radio in Germany, and as her broadcasts became more anti-American and...
Help improve health outcomes for Veterans The Million Veteran Program (MVP) is a historic effort : the largest health research program in the world affiliated with a healthcare system, and the first..
Photos courtesy of Stanley Ross More than five decades after 1968 , an especially violent year of the war, the rain, hunger, and calamity in Vietnam’s Central Highlands remain etched in my mind.
Okay, so if you’ve been seeing summer blockbusters and/or you’re into movie trailers, then you probably saw the teaser trailer for Tom Cruise’s upcoming film “Digger.
George Milton Neal joined the Navy at 17 and by 1951 was one of the only Black sailors in the service assigned to fly on search and rescue helicopters.
Hundreds of Long Island residents gathered on July 3, 2026, to honor the life of Army Medal of Honor recipient Pfc. Garfield M. Langhorn, who was reinterred at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.
Col. Frank Cohn, a veteran of the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam, died on July 4 at the age of 100, the Friends of the National WWII Memorial confirmed. He was one month shy of turning 101.
Early in his historic baseball career, Ted Williams lost three full years while serving in the military during World War II . Williams joined the United States Naval Reserve in 1942.
In the last moments of his life, Friedrich Lengfeld only saw a wounded soldier. A lieutenant fighting for the Germans during World War II , Lengfeld noticed a wounded American service member in...
“God help us if we go down here,” William Drager, a 25-year-old tail gunner from Hackettstown, N.J., wrote to his family in the late summer of 1944.
