How the 'Praying Skipper' Became the Only Sailor to Earn 5 Navy Crosses Roy Davenport earned five Navy Crosses as the lieutenant commander of two submarines, the USS Haddock and USS Trepang.
A Reminder That Nazis Made a Top General Kill Himself Erwin Rommel led troops in North Africa as Adolf Hitler's favored general in 1940. Four years later, he was dead by his own...
Triumph in Europe: Commemorating V-E Day On May 8, 1945, people flooded the streets, waved banners and hugged American troops as the Allies marked the unconditional...
Meet the ‘Laughing Paratrooper’ of World War II Most people would be concerned for their own safety with a gun pointed at them. Leonard Funk laughed it off.
Why Winston Churchill Once Visited Fort Jackson To prove that the U.S. Army would be ready, General Marshall took Churchill to the only place that made sense: Fort Jackson.
A World Series Hero Misstated WWII Record. Was It Stolen Valor? Gene Bearden, who helped the Cleveland Indians win the 1948 World Series, claimed he was injured as the USS Helena sank...
World War II Vet Still Breaking the Mold at 102 Army 1st Lt. Vivian "Millie" Bailey commanded a segregated all-female unit during World War II and has been helping service...
WWII Combat Veteran's Daughter Reflects on His Survivor's Guilt Over Best Friend's Sacrifice My dad was a World War II vet. Like many others, he was traumatized by combat, and by a nine-month imprisonment in a German...
'Rise of the Nazis' Chronicles How Stalin Screwed Up When He Trusted Hitler The show allows prominent historians to tell the story, while intercutting their descriptions with better-than-usual silent...
The Time World War II Veterans Overthrew a Corrupt Local Government in Tennessee The state and local political machine was abusing its power and the people in McMinn County, Tennessee, so GIs did something...
The Best World War II Movies, According to Service Members and Veterans These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members...
Veterans Could Get Free Gun Safes Under Suicide Prevention Proposal Introduced in House Any veteran who wants a lockbox to store their firearm would be able to get one for free from the Department of Veterans...
Marines Surpass Enlisted Recruitment Goal by 1, Officers over a Dozen in Sharp Drop from 2023 Officials said that the service sought to recruit 36,257 Marines this year, squeezing by with 36,286 total -- a difference of...
Annual Cost-of-Living Boost for Veterans Benefits Finalized by Congress The increase applies to disability benefits, clothing allowances, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving...
ROTC Scholarships Could Be Slashed This Decade as Army Deals with Glut of Officers The Army is eyeing a roughly $100 million cut to Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships through the rest of the decade...