9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (318+ words) The National World War II Memorial in Washington, dedicated to the 16 million members of the U.S. military, will be closed for the next five months, the National Park Service said last week. The agency said the closure is set to address…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (822+ words) In June 1940, Foss hitchhiked 300 miles to Minneapolis to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve so he could join the Naval Aviation Cadet program. He joined the United States Marine Corps and finished flight training in Miami, Florida, as a naval…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (700+ words) The son of a farmer and schoolteacher, the Iowan graduated high school at age 16 in 1951 and joined the United States Air Force in 1954 as a cadet in Royal, Iowa. After more than a decade in the Air Force, Dethlefsen received…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (880+ words) The rumor began as an ember. But such scuttlebutt, spread among the dense fog blanketing smoke pits and fanned by whispers of the E-4 Mafia and Lance Corporal Underground, is prone to sparking. In mere moments, the falsehood became a conflagration…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (855+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional leaders Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors, even as he faced intensifying demands from Congress for…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (762+ words) Following assignments in the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, Rasmussen became the chief of operations at Eglin Air Force Base, and he retired in 1965 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He died in 2005 at age 86 and is buried at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (695+ words) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L'Orgueilleuse in France's Normandy…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (613+ words) Since Japanese aircraft sank the USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleship has remained in place under water, the watery gravesite to more than 900 sailors entombed within. The U.S. Navy, as with other sunken ships in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1005+ words) On Oct. 5, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around Jacklyn Harrell Lucas" neck. According to Lucas, Truman told the Marine, "I"d rather have [your] medal than be president of the United States." "Sir, I"ll swap you,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (501+ words) I had four neat children and what I believed to be a neat wife that I wanted to get back to see. That's a strong incentive," he said. After years of tense start-and-stop negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnamese governments,…...