After 17-Year Effort, Construction Begins on Eisenhower Memorial The government recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Eisenhower Memorial on the National Mall.
'You're Home' By all accounts, Jimmie Collins and Welborn Smith were all-American boys who left their small hometowns to defeat Hitler and...
China Distorts History Ahead of World War II Commemoration China spent last week excoriating Japan for twisting the history of World War II while spreading distortions of its own on...
WWII Veterans Aim to Relive History with Restored PT Boat A PT boat that sank three German ships in the Mediterranean is being restored at the National World War II Museum.
Tuskegee Airmen Recall History-making Service, Missions They were among the men who became the first African-American pilots, navigators and support personnel to serve in World War...
Dwight D. Eisenhower When the United States into WWII, Eisenhower took over the Army War Plans Division to draft a basic strategy for the war...
Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory was born on Nov. 7, 1892 in Mobberly, Cheshire. Educated at Cambridge University, he graduated with...
Carl Spaatz Spaatz was promoted to a permanent major in July 1920, and during the inter-war years he proceeded up the ranks of a...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Movie poster for the Chinese film "The Cairo Declaration"](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/offduty/movies/2015/08/cairo-declaration-600x400.jpg?itok=-_DJKjpe "Movie poster for the Chinese film "The Cairo Declaration"")
![Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full victory - nothing else," to paratroopers in England, just before they boarded their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion on June 6, 1944.](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/history/world-war-ii/2017/01/dwight-eisenhower-gives-orders-1800x1200.jpg?itok=vEPvUp5B "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full victory - nothing else," to paratroopers in England, just before they boarded their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion on June 6, 1944.")
