49+ min ago  (114+ words) Stars and Stripes From the archives: WWII veteran returns to Italy for V-E Day, 2005 (Jason Chudy/Stars and Stripes) Nettuno, Italy, May 2005: Retired 1st Lt. Jim Armstrong salutes during the presentation of the U. S. and Italian flags during a ceremony marking the…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago  (1130+ words) Medal of Honor recipient Willibald Bianchi was buried last week in his hometown of New Ulm, Minn. , more than 80 years after the Army captain died aboard a Japanese "hell ship" near the end of World War II. Bianchi's remains had been…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (770+ words) NAGO-TORBOLE, Italy " A yearly long-distance march honoring the Army Rangers" first commander may have seen its final steps taken Thursday, as the founder of the Col. Darby 40-miler says he"s dropping his pack. Since 2010, participants have hiked up the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (548+ words) The USS Arizona Memorial is seen at Pearl Harbor on Aug. 5, 2025. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is moving forward with plans to disinter nearly 150 unidentified sailors from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, including some associated with the…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (496+ words) Genbaku Domu, or the Atom-Bomb Dome, a remnant of a building that withstood the atomic bomb dropped at the end of World War II, stands in Hiroshima, Japan, May 31, 2016. (Elizabeth Baker/U. S. Air Force) FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii " An observance planned for…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (456+ words) A 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran gunned down outside her Kansas home earlier this month saved the lives of six people through organ donation, her family said. Ivy Unruh died last week of wounds from an April 17 shooting. Her estranged husband,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (590+ words) Army Sgt. Daniel Beltran, a bridge crew chief with 809th Multi-Role Bridge Company, is awarded the Soldier's Medal for noncombat valor by Maj. Gen. Michael Lalor, commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, in Grafenwoehr, Germany, on April 24, 2024. (Lydia Gordon/Stars…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (107+ words) Stars and Stripes From the archives: Time for Tots at Rhein-Main Air Base, 2004 (Jessica Inigo/Stars and Stripes) Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, Jan. 8, 2004: Children at the Time for Tots program at the base show off their spiders made from construction…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1006+ words) Sgt. Lamar Porter, center, sits with the Schweitzer family at their home in Nonnweiler, Germany, on Dec. 25, 2025. A member of the 16th Sustainment Brigade in Baumholder, Porter was paired with the Schweitzers through U. S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz's Operation Good Cheer initiative. (Lara…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (911+ words) A turret lathe operator is shown machining transport plane parts in 1942 at Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, in Texas. Millions of women worked in defense industry jobs during World War II. (U. S. Library of Congress) WASHINGTON " A memorial recognizing "Rosie the Riveters" " the…...