Ancestry Marks D-Day with Free Access to its Military Collection The web site contains more than 250 million global military records, from pension rolls to enlistment registrations.
Church Bells to Ring 13 Times to Honor 13 D-Day Medal of Honor Recipients The event masks a dispute over where and when to memorialize all those who have earned the nation's highest award for valor.
D-Day Succeeded Thanks to an Ingenious Design Called the Mulberry Harbour "Behind the circular breakwaters was a sophisticated system of floating piers anchored to the seabed."
Chinese-American WWII Vets Eligible for Congressional Gold Medal The medal honors their heroism in service and sacrifice in the face of discrimination
A 101-Year-Old WWII Vet Commissioned His Grandson and People Are Crying Army Air Force veteran Walter Kloc commissioned his grandson Joseph Kloc at the young man’s Air Force Academy graduation...
Barbed Wire and a French Castle: A Soldier's Account of D-Day John Trippon threw his body across barbed wire to allow his unit to push inland on D-Day.
You Sent This World War II Vet 500 Birthday Cards What's the best way to celebrate a 100-year-old veteran's birthday? With cake -- and about 500 birthday cards and presents.
Here's the Complete Schedule for TCM's 75th Anniversary of D-Day Series Never Surrender: WWII in the Movies features introductions filmed at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans .
Movie Will Show How WWII's 'Operation Mincemeat' Helped Ensure an Allied Victory The British WWII counterintelligence operation used a dead body to mislead Germany about Allied plans to invade Sicily in...
Ben Mankiewicz Details TCM's Epic 75-Film Series for 75th Anniversary of D-Day The TCM host reflects on his visit to the National World War II Museum and the channel's role in teaching younger generations...
VA to Give Veterans One-Year Authorizations to Seek Care from Private Providers in 30 Specialties The move allows veterans to get 12 months of private treatment without having to request a reauthorization.
Air Force Investigating After Security Forces Kill Civilian Who Crashed into Arizona Base Gate An airman from the base's Security Forces Squadron "shot and fatally injured" the civilian after several of the troops used...
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Senators Seek Answers on Hawaii Veteran Ordered to Self-Deport U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem...
Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson Rock On: ‘Our Military Upbringing Helped Us in Many Ways’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have never served in any branch of the military. But the...