A British WWII Veteran’s Uncomfortable Question At age 100, British Royal Navy veteran Alec Penstone made headlines when he questioned whether the sacrifices of World War II...
Never Too Old: WWII Veteran, 101, Makes Most of Daily Workouts World War II veteran George Poleske is 101, legally blind and hard of hearing, but he shows up every day to work out and stay...
The Biscari Massacre: Patton’s Soldiers Executed 73 Axis POWs, Then the Army Covered it Up The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly...
105-Year-Old Massachusetts Veteran Believed to Be Nation’s Oldest Marine Louis Tanzer, likely the nation's oldest living Marine Corps veteran, received quite a celebration after turning 105 years of...
The 1944 Air Battle Over Niš: The Only Direct Combat Between American and Soviet Forces in WWII On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World...
US Removal of Panels Honoring Black WWII Soldiers Buried in Netherlands Sparks Anger After two panels honoring Black soldiers were removed due to President Donald Trump's executive orders eliminating DEI...
WWII Veteran, 104, Wows Fans with Saxophone National Anthem Before Islanders-Rangers Game Dominic Critelli delighted a crowd of more than 17,000 with his National Anthem rendition before the Rangers-Islanders game...
Operation Underworld: How an Italian Mafia Boss in Prison Helped the US Invade Sicily in World War II The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor...
This NFL Player Lost Both Legs at Iwo Jima – and Rallied His Platoon to Keep Fighting Jack Lummus' heroism dwarfed anything he did for the Giants in his short time with the franchise, but they never forgot his...
How a US War Crime Against a German Rescue Mission Helped Exonerate a Nazi Admiral at Nuremberg Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was...
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...
