How Female Service Members Paved the Way for the Modern Women’s Rights Movement The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been...
The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.
JFK's Funeral Was the Only State Burial in US History to Feature a Foreign Military Unit The funeral procession was also greeted by a unit of the Irish Defence Forces, which was conducting a silent drill, standing...
The First Parachute Jump from a Fixed-Wing Aircraft Was a Terrifying Risk for Everyone Involved U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training...
Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being 'Non-Consensual' The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non...
If You Like Working Out with Weights While Deployed Overseas, You Can Thank Arnold Schwarzenegger In 1990, President George H.W. Bush named actor, bodybuilder and seven-time Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger as chairman of...
How the 3 Living Black Medal of Honor Recipients Embody the Military’s Top Award On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...
Lawmakers Want Medals, Not Certificates, to Honor Veterans Involved in Nuclear Testing The current version of the House defense policy bill has a measure that would award "atomic veterans" with a service medal.
7 Important Things to Know About the First US Navy Seabees The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20japanese%20shipwrecks%20illegally%20salvaged%201200.jpg?itok=BNd6W2kY "One of three Japanese caro transports from World War II that lie off the coast of Borneo and have been destroyed by illegal metal salvage operations. Authorities describe them as "an unrecognizable heap of metal piled up into a ball.” (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency)")
