Harry Chandler, Navy Medic who Survived Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dies at 103 Harry Chandler is the third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks.
Remains of World War II Marine Recovered and Will Be Buried Stateside After 80 Years Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the...
How the First Female Pilot to Die on Active Duty with the US Military Cultivated Her Love of Flying Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of...
Bob Fernandez, 100-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Survivor, Dies Peacefully at Home 83 Years After Bombing Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that propelled the U.S. into...
101st Airborne Division Troops Return to Bastogne to Mark 80th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George...
A Chinese Filmmaker Remembers Victims of a WWII Tragedy in 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' The sinking of the Lisbon Maru was a tragedy that got lost in the seemingly endless loss of life that was the Pacific Theater...
80 Years Ago, a Historic Army-Navy Game Captivated a Nation During World War II The 1944 Army-Navy Game pitted the top two ranked teams in college football that season and raised more than $58 million for...
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Is a Powerful Tribute to the Army’s First All-Black, All-Woman Battalion The ugly job of sorting mail was meant to demean the women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War II...
Descendant of Last Native Leader of Alaska Island Demands Japanese Reparations for 1942 Invasion The great-granddaughter of the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea believes Japan should pay more...
2 Pearl Harbor Survivors, Ages 104 and 102, Return to Hawaii to Honor Those Killed in 1941 Attack Military historian J. Michael Wenger has estimated there were some 87,000 military personnel on Oahu on the day of the attack...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Two Pearl Harbor survivors](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-12/AP%20Pearl%20Harbor%20survivors%201200x800.jpg?itok=dglacgQR "Pearl Harbor survivors, Ken Stevens, 102, of Powers, Oregon, second from the left, and Ira "Ike" Schab, 104, of Beaverton, Oregon, wait before the start of the 83rd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)")
