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...
The Last of the Greatest Generation: What America Loses as Its WWII Veterans Fade Away World War II will soon transition from living memory to documented history, with VA projections from earlier this year...
How World War II Brought Pizza from the Battlefields of Italy to America’s Dinner Tables When Allied troops stormed the beaches of Sicily on July 10, 1943, they expected brutal combat in what Winston Churchill...
When U.S. Troops Fought Nazis in the Arctic: The Forgotten Battle for Greenland When Nazi Germany overran Denmark in April 1940, the Danish colony of Greenland was suddenly cut off from its government...
5 Reasons Why Chesty Puller is a Marine Corps Legend Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller was a Marine’s Marine. A bonafide badass leatherneck, with the scars to prove it. Here are 5...
How the 10th Mountain Division Built America’s Cold-Weather Warfare Doctrine Eighty years after its creation, the 10th Mountain Division’s continues to train soldiers to operate in snow, high altitudes...
How Scottish Hunters and a Fallen General Shaped Modern Military Snipers Today’s military sniper is a fusion of all these traditions. Modern rifles can reach beyond a mile with precision. Optics now...
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...
Battle Of The Bulge Veteran Celebrates 101st Birthday With Dream Flight So, when the World War II veteran, Battle of the Bulge soldier and guard at the Nuremberg Trials, had an opportunity to fly...
Soaring Valor, Honoring WWII Veterans, Makes Final Trip After 10 years, 30 chartered flights and more than 1,500 honorable passengers, Soaring Valor logged its final flight.
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...
