'Like Freeing a Ghost': A Sailor's Strange and Wondrous Journey Back from Pearl Harbor Some service members killed aboard the Oklahoma were identified, but most, like Titterington, were laid in mass graves...
The Last WWII Veteran on Active Duty Served for Nearly 55 Years After the War Dr. Earl Russell Fox joined the Navy during World War II, stayed in the Naval Reserve after the war and then joined the Coast...
US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
80 Years After D-Day, the Family of a Black World War II Combat Medic Receives His Medal for Heroism A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored...
The Infamous Golden Guns of the Most Notorious Deposed Dictators Money. Weapons. The power to make enemies disappear. Dictators seem to have it all. Some of them even take all three of those...
Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in...
The World War II Fighter Ace Behind the Navy's Blue Angels For the rest of his life, the Blue Angel pilots who came after him viewed Voris with reverence -- and with good reason.
5 Films and TV Shows About Operation Market Garden, Recommended by a War Historian Here are five films and TV shows that explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allies’ September 1944 strategic...
The Time an Army Bomber Crashed into the Empire State Building During WWII The crash, which caused about $1 million in damage (roughly $17.5 million in 2024), represented the first time that an...
Dutch Adopt US War Graves to Harbor Memories of the Country's Liberation 80 Years Ago In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...