The Forgotten Victims of the First Atomic Blast That ‘Oppenheimer’ Left Out May Finally Get Their Due Robert Oppenheimer and the scientists he recruited to develop the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos were well aware of the...
'Band of Brothers,' 'The Pacific' and 'Masters of the Air,' Ranked Ranking Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking World War II series.
New York's Famous Katz's Deli Will Still 'Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army' Though Katz's helped ease hunger pangs and homesickness during World War II with their salamis, the tradition didn't stop...
This Is the Truth Behind WWII’s Creepy Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most grotesque military urban legends ever.
Lou Conter, Last Survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor Attack, Dies at 102 Lou Conter was one of 335 sailors and Marines to survive the attack, and was the last living survivor. Some 2,341 service...
Why the US Navy Operated a Fleet of Ice Cream Ships During World War II If an army marches on its stomach, as Napoleon Bonaparte once purportedly said, then a fighting force as large and powerful...
'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would...
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...
Vincent Astor, Gentleman Spy William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances.
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...
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...
![](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)")
