The Real-Life D-Day Commandos Who Inspired Hollywood's 'Dirty Dozen' "The Dirty Dozen" had everything anyone could hope for in a war movie.
Watch 'Band of Brothers' Cast Members Jump into Normandy for D-Day's 80th Anniversary “There aren't any surviving members of Easy Company left anymore, and we are, in a way, the face of those men who have now...
The D-Day Veteran Who Escaped His Nursing Home to Revisit Normandy Is Getting a Second Movie Pierce Brosnan stars as 93-year-old Artie Crawford, a pensioner in Northern Ireland who requests to travel to Normandy for...
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...
How the US Military Scrambled to Recover a Missing Bomb During the Cold War If not for a Spanish fisherman who saw something and said something, the U.S. Air Force might never have recovered a missing...
How Airmen Started a Golf Club in the Nazi POW Camp Known for 'The Great Escape' It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II...
Why the Statue of George Washington in London’s Trafalgar Square Was Taken Down Military history buffs in London were probably perplexed to see the statue of George Washington, a gift presented by the...
Trump Designates Thursday as a Day for the US to Celebrate Victory in World War II Trump complained in recent social media posts that the U.S. doesn’t spend enough time celebrating its military victories like...
Canada Faked a Nazi Invasion of Winnipeg to Raise Money for War Bonds There was very little doubt about what Canada would do in the wake of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...