World War II

During World War II, a young John F. Kennedy was nearly killed when a Japanese destroyer hit his patrol torpedo boat in the...

Henry Erwin carried a burning bomb while blinded and on fire for 22 seconds. "It felt like miles," he later said.

After World War II, many Japanese martial arts were banned in occupied Japan, but karate flourished.

A broom on the mast of a U.S. Navy ship means a clean sweep for that mission.

Matt Urban is one of the most decorated soldiers ever, but no one knew for more than 30 years.

The Distinguished Service Cross is the United States Army's second-highest military honor.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering thought no one could escape from Colditz Castle. He was wrong.

He swears he didn't do it alone, but corpsman Eleuterio “Joe” Marquez kept his Marines alive through the night at Peleliu.

"Kelly's Heroes" is a 1970 film about a group of ne'er-do-wells who try to get a cache of stolen Nazi gold for themselves.

Bill Crump found a coyote pup while in flight school and then he took it to war during World War II.