Why the Skilcraft Pen Has Been Used by the Military Since 1968 The government's go-to ballpoint shows no signs of being replaced anytime soon.
Irish Woman Whose Weather Forecast Changed the Course of D-Day Dies at 100 Maureen Sweeney's weather dispatch from the lighthouse was a crucial warning to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, convincing him to...
Navy Medal of Honor Recipient from Pearl Harbor Is Honored with Arlington Funeral Seaman 1st Class James Ward, who enlisted in the Navy just about a year prior to Pearl Harbor, became one of five Oklahoma...
Larry Doby, World War II Navy Veteran Who Helped Integrate Baseball, Awarded Congressional Gold Medal At the ceremony in the U.S. Capitol on for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal, House Speaker Mike Johnson said...
That Time a Navy Destroyer Landed Atop a German Sub in WWII The USS Borie landed on the German submarine U-405's foredeck during World War II, locking the ships together for an...
New Historical Drama Series 'King and Conqueror' Builds Up to the Battle of Hastings Historians might disagree on whose side of the story is more accurate, but screenwriters and producers agree that no matter...
Navy Sailor Recalls What Storming Omaha Beach on D-Day Was Like A year after joining the Navy the day after graduating high school, Robert Curl of Alabama found himself on Omaha Beach...
The Civilian Who Fought Back Against Japanese Fighters at Pearl Harbor with a Crane It's believed Walters' crane helped sailors from the Pennsylvania shoot down at least eight to 10 attacking fighters.
Did Napoleon Really Fire at the Pyramids? A Historian Explains the Truth Behind the Legends of Ridley Scott’s Biopic Director Ridley Scott is not a historian and presumably wants to entertain rather than to enlighten. But the problem of...
How Four Nuns Became the First Native American Women to Serve in the US Military Today, American Indians and Alaska Natives serve in the Armed Forces at five times the national average — with the women...
Fired Space Force Officer Approved to Be Air Force's No. 2 Civilian Leader In a 52-46 party-line vote, the Senate approved former Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier to become the under secretary of the Air...
‘I Came Home Different': What They Don't Tell You About Life After Service "No one tells you that you might survive everything and still wake up years later wondering what the hell you're doing here."
Schumer Asks US Army to Award New York Hero with Medal of Honor Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis died in 2013 during a Taliban raid on Forward Operating Base Ghazni in Afghanistan.
Navy Torpedo Boat Abandoned in South Carolina Waters. Now the Owner Has Been Arrested These days, the only threat posed by a 120-foot-long Navy torpedo vessel is to the marsh outside of Charleston, S.C., where...
Marine Veteran Dies After Shooter Lying in Wait Ambushed Police Who Parked to Eat Lunch An Ohio police department says one of its officers is dead after a shooter lying in wait ambushed him and another officer as...
