Remember and Protect Their Fragile Gift of Freedom. Thank You to The Greatest Generation As part of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing in 2024, my wife and I joined colleagues from the American Battle...
Coasties Braved Withering German Fire to Put Troops Ashore on D-Day The role played by Coast Guard personnel who crewed the Higgins boats was critical to the success of the D-Day landings in...
President Chester A. Arthur's Grandson Was a Vet Who Led the 1960s Countercultural Revolution President Chester A. Arthur did not have the good fortune to be memorable. His grandson, Chester Alan "Gavin" Arthur III, is...
What 'D-Day' Actually Stands For What the "D" in D-Day actually stands for has been a source of debate almost from the time that the Allies first landed on...
This Gem of a Movie About an Airman’s Brush with Death Holds Up 80 Years Later “A Matter of Life and Death” is a romantic fantasy that centers around a British airman’s love for a U.S. Army Air Corps...
WWII Bomber Crash Left 11 Dead and 'Non-Recoverable.' 4 Are Finally Coming Home More than 200 people honored Staff Sgt. Eugene Darrigan, some waving flags from the sidewalk during the procession to the...
The Fashion Designer Who Became a Lethal Spy Chief During World War II By the time Hardy Amies linked up with the SOE, he was already a well-known staple of Britain’s fashion industry.
How Normandy Remembers the Only US Military Chaplain Killed in Action on D-Day Catholic chaplain Capt. Ignatius Maternowski was immortalized in 2021 with a stained-glass window depicting his image, his...
The Critical Role the Coast Guard Played in the D-Day Invasion Operation Overlord was one of the most complex military operations in the history of modern warfare.
What Ike Remembered When Returning to the Beaches of Normandy 20 Years After D-Day In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division tried to ease the concerns of...
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...