More On Military History

An explosion resulted in the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor in Havana on Feb. 15, 1898. A total of 266 crew members...

The late senator John Chafee is remembered for his leadership in government -- and in the field in Korea.

All it takes is some American ingenuity, Army grit and a little olive drab paint.

On March 24, 1985, Maj. Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. -- a member of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission to Potsdam, Germany, was...

It is one of those exceptional visual artifacts that draws attention and even controversy years after it was made.

Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault wrote this letter to the mother of one of his Flying Tiger pilots, J.E. Blackburn, who died in...

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a lone American flying at 80,000 feet above its cities. The secret mission was to gather...

In June 1944 at the time of D-Day, William John Arnold was a captain in the Durham Light Infantry Regiment in the British...

The Battle of the Bulge lasted for 40 days and ended in January 1945. Less than six months later, Hitler would be dead and...