The USS Mississippi Earned Eight Battle Stars and Made Naval History Twice USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship...
Operation Varsity: The Last Great Airborne Operation of WWII On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the...
Three Wars. Three Heroes. One Medal of Honor. Three soldiers in World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan received the nation's highest honor.
The Youngest Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient Was Only 17 and Is Still MIA 17-year-old Charles Gilliland never returned from Korea. His remains have never been recovered. More than seven decades later...
Operation Bribie: One of the Deadliest Battles for Australian Troops in the Vietnam War When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether...
Kuribayashi, Nishi and the Japanese Troops Who Chose Death Over Surrender at Iwo Jima Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most...
The Best Revenge Stories Ever Told, From Homer to ‘The Last of Us’ From The Odyssey to The Last of Us Part II, this sweeping look at the greatest revenge stories explores how vengeance evolved...
The Marine Who Crossed a Minefield Unarmed to Wipe Out Japanese Defenses on Iwo Jima Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of...
‘Uncommon Valor’: Heroics of the Battle of Iwo Jima Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off...
This Marine Married Chesty Puller’s Daughter and Was Recommended for the Medal of Honor at Khe Sanh In 1967, Vietnam, Capt. Bill Dabney chose the Marine unit closest to the enemy—an instinct that soon put him and his men at...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
