Final Wish Granted: D-Day Veteran, 100, Receives France's Highest Military Honor After thinking he was too young to receive France's Legion of Honor when he served in World War II, British Marine veteran...
The Last US Cavalry Charge in History: 27 Troopers Routed Japanese Forces in the Philippines During WWII Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of...
One of the Last Tuskegee Airmen Celebrates 99th Birthday Brigadier Gen. Enoch "Woody" Woodhouse, one of the last surviving heroes of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, celebrated a...
Operation Teardrop: The Secret Navy Mission to Stop German Submarines From Launching Rockets on New York City In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what...
Black Sunday Over Ploesti: WWII Mission Became the Costliest Air Raid in US History One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at...
Remains of Two West Virginia POWs Finally Identified Two West Virginia POWs, listed as "Unknowns" for decades, have finally been identified using DNA technology.
Pearl Harbor's Forgotten 1944 Disaster Killed at Least 163 Men and Reformed Navy Safety Measures The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted...
British Marine Who Provided Cover for Troops on D-Day Dies at 101 Francis "Jim" Grant, a Royal Marine and one of the last surviving British D-Day soldiers, died last week at 101.
The Finnish Sniper Who Killed Over 500 Soviet Soldiers, the Most Confirmed Kills in Military History The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä...
The Battle of Kasserine Pass: The Humiliating WWII Defeat That Transformed the US Army The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of...
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...
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-01/woodhouse_1__0.jpg?itok=EYdUjABY ""Woody" Woodhouse laughs showing a photo from his World War II days at his birthday celebration on Wednesday. (Submitted photo)")
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-01/110124-d-7991k-007.jpg?itok=CqZoa-sL "Artwork "Fire Over Ploesti" by Roy Grinnell, Air Force Art. (Air Force Historical Support Division)")
