Missing WWII Medal of Honor Recipient Returns Home for Burial 80 Years Later Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi, a Bataan Death March survivor killed by friendly fire in 1945, will be buried with full...
‘Nothing Prepared Me’: WWII Medic, 104, Reflects on Liberating Buchenwald As an Army medic in World War II, Tim Kiniry thought he had seen it all. Then came April 28, 1945 and his introduction to the...
How the WWII Battle of Cisterna Destroyed and Transformed the Army Rangers In January 1944, two Ranger battalions walked into an ambush at Cisterna, Italy. Only six of 767 men escaped, forever...
Montana National Guard Brings Lost WWII Soldier Home More than 80 years after his death in a POW camp, a Montana soldier's remains were finally brought home.
The Army ‘Viking Battalion’ Raised to Liberate Nazi-Occupied Norway in WWII The Army created the 99th Infantry Battalion from Norwegian-speaking GIs. Trained to invade Norway, the Vikings instead held...
Missing WWII Buffalo Soldier Brought Home From Italy After 81 Years Pfc. St. Clair M. Gibson of New Haven, Connecticut went missing on a northern Italian mountain in 1944. After 81 years...
Community Honors Homeless World War II POW Who Couldn’t Speak William Clements died in 1995, but the British veteran left a profound impact on his community. Now, he's being honored with...
This Mortally Wounded WWII Navigator Refused Morphine to Guide His B-17 Home Mortally wounded and lying in a pool of his own blood, 2nd Lt. Robert Femoyer navigated his B-17 home for two and a half...
Racing Time: Oral Historian Travels America to Capture WWII Voices Chandler Stark is venturing throughout the nation to talk to World War II veterans and record their stories for The National...
Project Hula: The US Secretly Armed the Soviet Union to Invade Japan in WWII In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost...
Which Americans Will Be Automatically Registered for Military Draft, and When? Last year's defense bill passed by Congress paved the way for the new automatic registration process.
A VA Clinic Gave Veterans GLP-1s for Weight Loss. A Year Later, Everything Improved Researchers tracked 201 veterans prescribed semaglutide, the drug sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy. After one...
WWII Veteran Who Lied About His Age to Serve Takes Honor Flight Joining the military at 16 to serve in World War II to service in Korea and Vietnam, humble Al Duran has lived quite a life.
Disabled Veterans Charged Up to $20K to File VA Benefits Claims: Lawsuit The company being sued told Military.com it doesn't charge for VA claims. Plaintiffs disagree, citing purported deceptive...
3 Big Military PCS Changes Are Coming at Once. Here’s What to Know Before 2026 Peak Season In 2026, three major changes are affecting military household goods moves: a new permanent agency to run the system, the end...
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-04/9626000.jpg?itok=MSTBn3in "Army Pfc. St. Clair M. Gibson was a "Buffalo Soldier" with the 371st Infantry Regiment, part of the segregated 92nd Infantry Division. On Nov. 18, 1944, Gibson went missing during heavy combat near Monte Canala. Because the terrain around Seravezza was so steep and dangerous, his unit couldn't recover him before the battle lines shifted. (Army Photo)")
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-04/clements_1_.jpg?itok=xYiY53iS "British World War II veteran William "Barton Billy" Clements. (Submitted)")
