A U-Boat Killed 763 American Soldiers on Christmas Eve in 1944. The Army Kept It Secret for 50 Years Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944...
NY Man Honors Grandfather’s Legacy by Preserving World War II Memorabilia His grandfather passed away in 2018. Brendan Gibbons still works to preserve his legacy through collecting and restoring...
Final Wish Granted: D-Day Veteran, 100, Receives France's Highest Military Honor After thinking he was too young to receive France's Legion of Honor when he served in World War II, British Marine veteran...
The Last US Cavalry Charge in History: 27 Troopers Routed Japanese Forces in the Philippines During WWII Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of...
One of the Last Tuskegee Airmen Celebrates 99th Birthday Brigadier Gen. Enoch "Woody" Woodhouse, one of the last surviving heroes of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, celebrated a...
Operation Teardrop: The Secret Navy Mission to Stop German Submarines From Launching Rockets on New York City In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what...
Black Sunday Over Ploesti: WWII Mission Became the Costliest Air Raid in US History One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at...
Remains of Two West Virginia POWs Finally Identified Two West Virginia POWs, listed as "Unknowns" for decades, have finally been identified using DNA technology.
Pearl Harbor's Forgotten 1944 Disaster Killed at Least 163 Men and Reformed Navy Safety Measures The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted...
British Marine Who Provided Cover for Troops on D-Day Dies at 101 Francis "Jim" Grant, a Royal Marine and one of the last surviving British D-Day soldiers, died last week at 101.
This Navy Dentist Engraved 'Remember Pearl Harbor' on Hideki Tojo's Dentures For roughly three months in 1946 and 1947, the man who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor walked around Sugamo Prison with...
Black History Month Turns 100 Black History Month highlights Black servicemembers whose courage shaped the military despite segregation and discrimination.
DoW Christian Service Draws Dozens of Complaints from Members, Contractors One contractor told Military.com that the email invite was "stark, depressing, almost threatening."
The Youngest American Killed in Vietnam Enlisted in the Marines at 14 PFC Dan Bullock became the youngest American service member killed in the Vietnam War after forging his birth certificate to...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...