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Aug 25, 2025
As a naval aviator in World War II, Donald McPherson got five aerial kills. Then he spent decades in a life of service.
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Jul 16, 2025
Explorers found part of the USS New Orleans, blown off of the cruiser during heavy fighting in World War II.
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Jul 11, 2025
The early attempt at drones in World War II saw the Army Air Forces convert B-17 bombers into remote-controlled flying bombs.
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Jun 25, 2025
The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across both sides.
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Jun 16, 2025
66 years ago the U.S. Navy loaded a nuclear-capable cruise missile with the mail and fired it from a submarine towards Florida.
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Jun 16, 2025
It's the U.S. Army's birthday. Originally created as a small force, its soldiers have played a major role in the U.S.'s growth and defense.
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May 26, 2025
Researchers took the first ever photographs of the sunken USS F-1, lost in 1917 in a collision off of California.
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May 7, 2025
80 years ago the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS.
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Apr 15, 2025
Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor.
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Apr 14, 2025
Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor.
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Apr 2, 2025
The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force.
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Jan 3, 2025
In the late 1950s the U.S. Army began thinking that soldiers flying over battlefields was the way to victory in the future.
Jun 25, 2025The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across both sides.
Jun 16, 2025It's the U.S. Army's birthday. Originally created as a small force, its soldiers have played a major role in the U.S.'s growth and defense.