How a WWII British Op Fooled Hitler and Ensured a Successful Invasion of Sicily "Operation Mincemeat" is a movie about the British intelligence operation that convinced Germany that the Allies planned to...
Year-by-Year Account Tells Inspiring Story of the Tuskegee Airmen Charles McGee, one of the most famous Tuskegee Airmen, says a new book "provides an accurate and complete record" of all the...
How the First Aircraft Carrier Battle in History Could Have Ended The Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II was the first carrier-versus-carrier battle in history.
This Destroyer Did the US Proud Through Three Wars From supporting amphibious attacks against the Viet Cong to fighting off Japanese warships, the USS Radford has seen it all.
‘Tactical Surprise’: The D-Day Amphibious Assault at Utah Beach Battling with five-foot waves, thrashing winds and heavy enemy fire, U.S. Navy amphibious landing craft mounted a fierce...
What if D-Day Failed? A Message from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Read the message that Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower would have sent out to the American public if the D-Day invasion...
He’s One of the Last Living WWII Marine Corps Pilots Sam Folsom was one of the first echelon of 17 Marine fighter pilots tasked with defending Guadalcanal.
From Big Week to the Big Day: Aerial Attacks Set Up D-Day Invasion Hundreds of United States Army Air Force’s (USAAF) B-17 Flying Fortress bombers launched a massive coordinated assault just...
This President’s Son Overcame Age, Health Issues on D-Day to Earn the Medal of Honor Teddy Roosevelt Jr., the son of the nation's 26th president, served as a brigadier general leading the 4th Infantry Division...
The Ghost of This WWII Destroyer Was Just Found Off Alaska The USS Abner Read, which was severely damaged by an explosion on Aug. 18, 1943, is the final resting place for 71 U.S...
Military Moves Ships, Aircraft to Middle East as Senator Seeks to Stop US Action Against Iran The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
The Army Parade Was Marked by Quiet Crowds, Trump-Linked Sponsors. But Soldiers Kept Politics at Bay. Despite the mixed feelings, the Army birthday parade was also an overdue opportunity to engage with the public and highlight...
Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against Time Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Attorneys for a class-action suit representing 9,000 veterans argued that a legal interpretation limiting retroactive Combat...
![Colin Firth Matthew Macfadyen Operation Mincemeat](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-05/operationmincemeat3000.jpg?itok=ApVp8Xh9 "Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu and Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley in "Operation Mincemeat." (Photo: Giles Keyte/See-Saw)")
![Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. A "mushroom cloud" rises after a heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. (U.S. Navy)](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2018-05/uss-lexington-explosion-1942.jpg?itok=pbzCI91O "Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. A "mushroom cloud" rises after a heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. (U.S. Navy photo)")
