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Nov 24, 2025
This newly organized unit soon became one of the war's most aggressive fighting forces. It was one of only two Army divisions to experience combat from that first chaotic morning at...
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Nov 21, 2025
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His path from a small-town in Kansas to Supreme Allied...
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Nov 21, 2025
A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured...
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Nov 19, 2025
On the evening of June 10, 1953, Markley briefed his men from K Company, 15th Infantry Regiment before sending them to their posts. His roughly 150 soldiers would defend a hilltop...
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Nov 17, 2025
American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone...
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Nov 12, 2025
On Sept. 15, 1918, Corporal Lee Duncan walked through the bombed-out ruins of a German camp near Flirey, France. There, he found a kennel that housed military working dogs meant for...
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Nov 10, 2025
When Major General John A. Lejeune became Commandant in 1920, he inherited a Marine Corps that had proven itself at Belleau Wood but faced serious questions about its future....
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Nov 7, 2025
Under Maj. William O. Darby, volunteers drawn heavily from the 34th Infantry Division trained in Scotland in demolitions, amphibious assaults, cliff scaling, and small-unit tactics....
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Nov 5, 2025
When U.N. forces famously stormed ashore at Inchon on September 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur’s gamble set in motion a rapid advance on Seoul. North Korean forces retreated...
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Nov 3, 2025
From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet...
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Oct 29, 2025
A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in...
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Oct 24, 2025
The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps...
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Oct 22, 2025
When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced...
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Oct 20, 2025
The result is a return to the kind of precision once considered revolutionary in World War II—but now available at a much smaller cost. As adversaries adapt faster than the...
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Oct 13, 2025
The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most...
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Sep 24, 2025
Decades after the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain fell, a new divide is emerging along Poland’s eastern border with Belarus. NATO’s most fortified border now faces...
Nov 10, 2025When Major General John A. Lejeune became Commandant in 1920, he inherited a Marine Corps that had proven itself at Belleau Wood but faced serious questions about its future....
Nov 5, 2025When U.N. forces famously stormed ashore at Inchon on September 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur’s gamble set in motion a rapid advance on Seoul. North Korean forces retreated...
Oct 29, 2025A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in...