A Small Canadian Mistake on the USS Missouri Nearly Halted Japan’s Surrender Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier...
POW Hero: Coast Guard’s Jimmy Crotty Came Home After 77 Years Jimmy Crotty’s courage under fire and in captivity became legendary — a story of sacrifice, endurance and homecoming.
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
How This Airman Survived 3 Months in the Alaskan Wilderness After a World War II Plane Crash Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed...
V-J Day: The Formal Surrender of Japan V-J Day commemorates the Allied victory over Japan in World War II on Sept. 2, 1945.
What It Was Like to Be Fighting the Japanese on V-J Day It took almost a week to convince the six to seven thousand Japanese on Cebu that the war was really over. They had to be...
Bones Found at Japanese Site Where Korean Forced Laborers Died in WWII Three possible limb bones and a skull were found in the past two days by Korean divers at the former site of the Chosei Mine...
America's Last Living Ace Pilot from World War II Dies at Age 103 A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy...
The Gold Star Mom Who Rallied America After Losing 5 Sons During World War II Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to...
Veterans Who Lack Citizenship Fear Being Swept Up in Trump's Deportations Veterans are often promised that military service will be a fast-track to U.S. citizenship for themselves and their family...
How This Female Pilot Beat the Odds and Flew for the Air Force Thunderbirds Retired Air Force fighter pilot Michelle Curran flew for the Thunderbirds demonstration team from 2019 through 2021.
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
The Future of Crewless Naval Warfare Is Being Built in New England This year’s Big Beautiful Bill, signed by President Donald Trump in July, allocated several billion dollars toward unmanned...
Department of Defense Memo Proposes Sweeping Reorganization of Acquisition Work A recent memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proposes a sweeping reorganization of defense acquisition work that would...