Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts As the nation remembers the anniversary of Japan's capitulation on Aug. 15, 1945, Lawrence Johnston's story is unique.
How This POW Became the Only Soldier to Fight for the US and Russia During WWII While with the Red Army, Beyrle was involved in several firefights with Germans and helped blow open a safe at one of the POW...
D-Day Story: Joseph Beyrle I graduated from St. Joseph High School in Muskegon and had a scholarship to attend Notre Dame, which I did not accept...
Army Moves to Save Legacy of the Baron -- Ernie Pyle's Drinking Buddy, Aristocrat, Artist, Spy, and WWII Legend The Army is saving a huge mural left behind by acclaimed artist Baron Rudolph Charles Von Ripper before he went off to fight...
'Burial' Tells a Fictional WWII Story About What Happened to Hitler's Body "Burial" is a World War II thriller about a band of Russian troops tasked with delivering Adolf Hitler's body to Joseph...
How the US Military Ended Japanese Air Dominance by Destroying the Legend of the Zero At the start of World War II, Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter was the most vaunted and feared weapon in the enemy arsenal...
Woody Williams, Last WWII Medal of Honor Recipient, Lies in Honor at Capitol Rotunda The nation paid tribute to "Woody" Williams' lifetime of service as his flag-draped casket was set upon a catafalque to "lie...
John F. Kennedy Became a WWII Hero After Swimming 10 Sailors to Safety When John F. Kennedy was asked about what he did to become a hero in the Pacific War in 1943, he responded by saying, "It was...
How This Vietnam POW Never Gave Up, Never Lost Hope Medal of Honor recipient and Vietnam POW beat all odds and survived because he never gave up hope.
Last of the Doolittle Raiders, Dick Cole, Dies at 103 Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, the last veteran of the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo during World War II, died Tuesday.
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...