http://feed.informer.com/digests/NOXJSIX80D/feeder Military History Feed - Military.com Originals Respective post owners and feed distributors Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:55:34 +0000 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/20/we-were-behind-barbed-wire-george-takei-fighting-country-imprisoned-their-families.html Military-history urn:uuid:ab609457-3ec3-498f-0ab0-303d1564a475 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:07:00 +0000 In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II incarceration camps, honors the Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd, and warns today’s troops and vets about how fear, racism, and bad leadership can make history repeat itself. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/28/army-bombers-attacked-japanese-fleet-and-helped-turn-tide-midway.html Military-history urn:uuid:6ade478f-7856-3092-10b3-ad2d3bcfd441 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew believed it was a suicide attack — years before Japan’s own “kamikaze” missions began. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/25/thanksgiving-strategic-military-tool.html Military-history urn:uuid:addffd3d-ed9b-64fc-133a-c9d15f55983b Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:11:00 +0000 Thanksgiving has always been more than a holiday for the U.S. military. From Lincoln’s wartime proclamation to modern deployments, the holiday has helped shape national unity, morale, and civil-military connection. Historical records show that troops have celebrated Thanksgiving in training camps, on ships, and in combat zones, even as operations continued during major conflicts. The tradition now blends history, logistics, and messaging into one of the most enduring links between the military and the American public. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/28/americas-secret-wwii-oss-mission-vietnam-arm-ho-chi-minh-against-japan.html Military-history urn:uuid:54ad405e-3c1f-32ef-6c21-425df6c5cbed Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS Deer Team, a short-lived mission that joined U.S. troops and Vietnamese revolutionaries against a common enemy—two decades before the United States would return to Vietnam as their adversary. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/20/only-wwii-land-battle-fought-american-soil-forgotten-fight-alaska.html Military-history urn:uuid:98c6b733-fe1e-75a6-fae4-2fed166768f9 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:04:00 +0000 When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from Japanese occupation was the total opposite. The fight over the frozen island became the only land battle of World War II fought on U.S. soil. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/20/christopher-nolans-odyssey-taps-oldest-story-troops-know-trying-get-home-after-war.html Military-history urn:uuid:172250c7-bee4-7900-d3df-76287193b3cc Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reimagines Homer’s epic as the ultimate post-deployment story: Matt Damon’s Odysseus fights monsters, bad calls, and an “unmapped, uncharted” world on his way home from the Trojan War. Shot entirely on IMAX, the 2026 film taps directly into what today’s troops and veterans know about war’s long journey back. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/14/mississippi-delta-farmers-wife-fell-love-german-pow-and-helped-him-escape-leading-fbi-chase.html Military-history urn:uuid:9d6f53dd-b461-f77a-ceef-9d4ce1b98dbb Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the country and exposed one of the strangest prisoner-of-war incidents on American soil. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/19/pearl-harbor-japan-how-25th-infantry-division-earned-its-tropic-lightning-name-wwii.html Military-history urn:uuid:9e290945-695e-050b-60fd-d5f4722ca101 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 This newly organized unit soon became one of the war's most aggressive fighting forces. It was one of only two Army divisions to experience combat from that first chaotic morning at Pearl Harbor straight through to occupying defeated Japan almost four years later. Today, the division remains headquartered at Schofield Barracks, the same Hawaiian post where its World War II saga began. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/18/task-force-smith-how-24th-infantry-division-saved-south-korea-start-of-korean-war.html Military-history urn:uuid:cca6929b-c8d9-505c-78f2-b32ef17cf096 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:48:00 +0000 In July of 1950, the Korean War looked as if it was about to come to an unexpectantly quick conclusion. South Korean troops had been pushed far south, before gradually falling into a defensive line around the port of Pusan. Across the Sea of Japan, American soldiers boarded transport planes at Itazuke Air Base, Japan preparing to go into combat against an unfamiliar enemy. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/13/wwii-mystery-behind-1942-battle-of-los-angeles-axis-planes-aliens-or-mass-hysteria.html Military-history urn:uuid:db28ff56-ccb2-08a3-b8f3-be7f7021bbcb Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:53:00 +0000 Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, 1942. Within minutes, searchlights swept the sky while thousands of air raid wardens rushed to their posts. Then anxious gun crews unleashed hell. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/15/last-stand-korea-greek-and-american-troops-held-outpost-harry-against-13000-chinese-soldiers.html Military-history urn:uuid:1f956722-2b70-adfe-f8cf-88b77d1562ff Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:47:00 +0000 On the evening of June 10, 1953, Markley briefed his men from K Company, 15th Infantry Regiment before sending them to their posts. His roughly 150 soldiers would defend a hilltop outpost barely 400 yards wide against overwhelming enemy forces. The Chinese artillery started just after dark. More than 20,000 shells slammed into Outpost Harry, turning the Korean landscape into an apocalyptic view of fire and shrapnel. As the Americans took cover, they could hear the whistles and bugles as enemy soldiers surged up the slopes. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/16/ken-burns-american-revolution-10-big-takeaways-directors-exclusive.html Military-history urn:uuid:62d45530-84ae-3874-dea6-e6118c43ea79 Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:56:00 +0000 Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. And in an exclusive interview, Co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt told Military.com how they rebuilt the war from the enlisted level up. This isn’t a powdered-wig highlight reel. Botstein and Schmidt told me their goal was to show the war as service members lived it—marches in summer heat, handmade munitions, disease, bayonets, divided loyalties, and the families who trailed the armies. Below are the best nuggets from our conversation, edited for clarity. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/06/how-hollywood-has-rewritten-american-revolution-century-of-film-tv-portrayals.html Military-history urn:uuid:f4fb824e-6bb0-d680-1e2c-b6066882bfe0 Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 We take a look at how Hollywood has depicted the American Revolution over the last 100+ years, from silent films to HBO's John Adams and, most recently, Ken Burns' The American Revolution. We examine everything from patriotic myths to gritty realism. Discover what filmmakers got right, wrong, and why it matters. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/28/general-dwight-d-eisenhower-never-saw-combat-led-america-victory-world-war-ii.html Military-history urn:uuid:e3fd3a31-6258-8886-ffe7-cf05ebe0c21b Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His path from a small-town in Kansas to Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and later President of the United States, remains one of the most unlikely stories in military history. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/30/only-army-unit-fight-five-of-marine-corps-bloodiest-wwii-battles-including-iwo-jima.html Military-history urn:uuid:2daa1caa-4f99-5b31-9e26-a392a0a84b18 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War II’s Pacific Theater. What few remember is that the U.S. Army usually fought alongside the Marines through some of the fiercest battles in history. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/13/how-rag-tag-group-of-soldiers-marines-choctaw-militia-and-pirates-saved-new-orleans-british.html Military-history urn:uuid:343e497b-8858-3244-ab8b-637264ccdcd6 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:18:00 +0000 By December of 1814, American forces were in tatters. The Redcoats had dominated them in the War of 1812, repulsed their invasion of Canada and even burned the Whitehouse. While diplomats were preparing peace documents, a veteran British force moved into the Gulf Coast, preparing to take New Orleans. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/03/russell-crowe-stars-nazi-leader-hermann-goring-new-wwii-film-about-nuremberg-trials.html Military-history urn:uuid:e06f4168-8780-0b77-bffe-af0a5df165af Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:17:00 +0000 Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials brought the top Nazi leadership to justice, Nuremberg, a new film from Sony Pictures Classics, Walden Media, and Bluestone Entertainment, is set to bring the courtroom drama back into focus—with a psychological twist that hits disturbingly close to home. Opening in theaters nationwide on November 7, 2025, Nuremberg stars Russell Crowe as Nazi leader Hermann Göring, Rami Malek as U.S. Army psychiatrist Capt. Douglas Kelley and Michael Shannon as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief prosecutor at the trials. Ryan Thomas LaBee https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/11/army-dustoff-pilot-rescued-over-3000-troops-vietnam-helped-secure-congressional-gold-medal-medevac.html Military-history urn:uuid:5134935e-ce5b-5135-0c2a-4571c0b86e93 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:07:00 +0000 By then, he had flown over 3,000 casualties to safety during 11 months evacuating wounded soldiers from Vietnam's most dangerous battlefields. More than five decades later, the efforts of the Army DUSTOFF pilots in Vietnam are to be recognized with a Congressional Gold Medal. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/10/netflix-brings-president-james-garfields-forgotten-assassination-life.html Military-history urn:uuid:dbc490d1-35e1-9986-20bd-9e091f434eb3 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Netflix’s Death by Lightning revisits the life, legacy, and tragic assassination of President James Garfield — America’s forgotten Civil War hero turned leader. Created by Mike Makowsky (Bad Education) and based on Candice Millard’s 2011 nonfiction bestseller Destiny of the Republic, the show dramatizes the rise and fall of America’s 20th president, his fateful encounter with an obsessed admirer, and the cascade of bad luck, bad medicine, and bad politics that followed. Ryan Thomas LaBee https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/10/last-american-killed-wwi-charged-german-machine-gun-seconds-armistice-took-effect.html Military-history urn:uuid:f93fcfe1-1741-b6aa-1606-8242b1401991 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 Gen. John Pershing would officially designate Gunther as the last American soldier killed in World War I. He was one of approximately 2,750 men who died that morning — casualties of the six-hour window between the armistice signing and its enforcement. He is thought to be the last soldier to die during the war. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/06/command-crisis-saipan-only-time-marine-general-ever-fired-army-general.html Military-history urn:uuid:0f7f004e-e0f9-f940-00c9-e13c7fd301f1 Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000 Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Holland M. “Howlin' Mad” Smith—commanding the V Amphibious Corps—had just done something unprecedented in the Pacific War and the history of the U.S. military. He relieved an Army division commander in the middle of combat. The decision would ignite an interservice firestorm that threatened to disrupt American operations across the Pacific. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/05/how-ken-burns-revolutionary-war-series-reveals-war-within.html Military-history urn:uuid:2568ef56-62be-32b7-c214-7df93d421f65 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more a logistical and strategic nightmare. The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, premieres November 16 on PBS, airing over six consecutive nights. It will also stream in 4K Ultra HD on the PBS app—the first time a Burns documentary is available in that format. Ryan Thomas LaBee https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/05/battle-changed-vietnam-war-green-berets-and-seabees-fight-survival-dong-xoai.html Military-history urn:uuid:59a2a040-3cc8-27ed-fc1a-a55b404a95ce Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, 5th Special Forces Group, had arrived at Dong Xoai in late May 1965 to train local Montagnard tribesmen and South Vietnamese forces. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/03/preserving-victory-lessons-monuments-men-todays-military.html Military-history urn:uuid:ef18a53f-0388-924b-e85c-a43f31f07ffa Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 During World War II, a small Allied unit known as the Monuments Men risked their lives to protect Europe’s art, monuments, and archives from destruction and theft. Their work showed that military success depends not only on defeating enemies but also on safeguarding the culture and identity of liberated societies. Today, the same lesson applies in conflicts where cultural heritage is still targeted to erase history and divide communities. For modern military forces, protecting heritage strengthens legitimacy, builds trust, and helps ensure that victory leads to lasting peace. Haley Fuller https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/07/why-commandant-lejeune-created-marine-corps-birthday-traditions-and-how-they-built-corps-pride.html Military-history urn:uuid:a62da565-c5a9-d59d-257c-b62bbb27d3b0 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 When Major General John A. Lejeune became Commandant in 1920, he inherited a Marine Corps that had proven itself at Belleau Wood but faced serious questions about its future. Post-World War I America wanted disarmament and drawdowns. The Washington Naval Treaty discussions led to massive budget cuts and military downsizing that created legitimate concern among Marine Corps senior leaders. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/06/how-12-chinese-divisions-failed-destroy-1st-marine-division-chosin-reservoir.html Military-history urn:uuid:dc677595-6da9-9f2f-1302-f12cdef61dc5 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:47:00 +0000 With UN troops getting dangerously close to the Yalu River, Mao Zedong's orders were simple: destroy the 1st Marine Division. In late November 1950, he sent 12 divisions—more than 120,000 troops from the elite 9th Army Group—into the frozen mountains around North Korea's Chosin Reservoir to trap and annihilate 30,000 American, British and South Korean forces. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/05/us-marine-who-forced-nazi-officers-toast-fdr-gunpoint-and-became-most-decorated-oss-operative.html Military-history urn:uuid:d1aae35d-a131-5f24-6ee4-7c70deb8814c Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in France, spent 15 months as a prisoner of war, and escaped occupied Europe to get back into the fight. Allen Frazier https://www.military.com/feature/2025/11/05/ai-studios-new-tech-could-transform-how-military-history-told.html Military-history urn:uuid:f88cb177-3d5b-6b57-409e-9c52a35f550a Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 If Daniel Clarke’s new studio, Unfeatured Films, gets its way, the future of documentary filmmaking, and how we engage with history, could change in a big way. According to Variety, Clarke, a filmmaker and creative agency veteran, launched the studio with a mission to turn archival images into cinematic, emotionally rich videos through the use of Artificial Intelligence. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/31/dieppe-army-rangers-first-fight-against-germans-wwii.html Military-history urn:uuid:3479fe63-44c1-9c6c-753e-4bde91b6bf9a Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:59:00 +0000 Under Maj. William O. Darby, volunteers drawn heavily from the 34th Infantry Division trained in Scotland in demolitions, amphibious assaults, cliff scaling, and small-unit tactics. By August, just two months after their creation, 50 Rangers would face their first test: Operation Jubilee, the Allied raid on Dieppe, France. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/30/us-destroyer-engaged-german-u-boat-crew-hand-hand-combat.html Military-history urn:uuid:be4ed98c-a644-01b7-54d9-1de206db5122 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:55:00 +0000 In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new destroyer escort, USS Buckley, did just that by slugging it out in hand-to-hand combat with German sailors from U-66 in the middle of the Atlantic. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/10/30/samuel-shaw-richard-marven-americas-first-whistleblowers.html Military-history urn:uuid:6a61d972-6e1c-1331-0034-6e085dcef717 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:52:00 +0000 Before civilian statutes and corporate hotlines, two young Rhode Island naval officers in 1777 risked career and liberty to expose war-time misconduct. They became America’s first whistle-blowers, and their case prompted Congress to enact the nation’s earliest protection for truth-tellers. Haley Fuller https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/31/block-block-1950-battle-of-seoul-urban-combat-terrible-cost.html Military-history urn:uuid:3f5cfa21-54e3-295b-deb1-ff2639fa56c9 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 When U.N. forces famously stormed ashore at Inchon on September 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur’s gamble set in motion a rapid advance on Seoul. North Korean forces retreated from the southern half of the peninsula as UN troops raced to cut them off. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/10/25/must-watch-movies-hacksaw-ridge-catch-during-deployment.html Military-history urn:uuid:bac40879-b863-3a41-1b6e-83662ab59ddc Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:09:29 +0000 Sometimes, the right movie reminds you why you serve and who’s waiting when you get home. Long deployments come with stretches of silence — the nights when the mission’s done, the day’s over, and you finally have a few hours to yourself. For many service members, movies aren’t just a way to pass time; they’re a reminder of home, purpose, and perseverance. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/10/25/haunted-military-sites-skeptics-guide-most-allegedly-haunted-military-sites.html Military-history urn:uuid:2e71443b-e210-f878-a815-d8bbebba564d Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:36:32 +0000 From ghostly cavalry patrols to phantom footsteps in 19th-century forts, haunted military base stories have become a staple of American paranormal lore. But how much is real, how much is legend, and what makes these sites compelling for even the most hardened skeptics? Whether you're planning a family trip, a history buff's weekend, or just curious about military ghost stories explained, these historic outposts offer a chilling mix of folklore, education, and preserved heritage. https://www.military.com/feature/2025/10/23/spirits-of-corps-eerie-stories-across-fleet.html Military-history urn:uuid:39ac7a99-96f8-4783-4838-f2ebfb318e23 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:19:05 +0000 Marines from across the fleet have long encountered ghosts and eerie phenomenon. This article compiles some of the more legendary ghost stories from across the fleet. https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/small-canadian-mistake-uss-missouri-nearly-halted-japans-surrender.html Military-history urn:uuid:52cc0bd9-2f53-736b-b233-31838fcdb84e Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:49:15 +0000 Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight error that nearly derailed the official end of World War II. https://www.military.com/history/8-legendary-us-military-snipers Military-history urn:uuid:0d8cbb95-5941-3649-d9ea-dad66433cfe1 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:42:04 +0000 The most notable snipers in U.S. military history aren’t just legends – they include real soldiers, sailors and Marines who stood their ground with extraordinary courage. https://www.military.com/history/world-war-ii-pow-endured-more-50-years-captivity.html Military-history urn:uuid:0870aa4a-35ed-695e-0fd5-92a9a71f71bb Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:21:18 +0000 When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II, she noticed the resemblance immediately. https://www.military.com/history/how-men-navy-submarine-survived-after-sinking-240-feet-atlantic.html Military-history urn:uuid:afb7db8b-e8e0-6d6b-0e32-ec9a65109ab5 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:38:37 +0000 Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus that they would survive this catastrophe. https://www.military.com/history/how-coast-guard-pulled-off-one-of-its-greatest-rescues-during-noreaster.html Military-history urn:uuid:921de295-ab6c-1cd0-8846-4661d38789d2 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:34:29 +0000 A menacing nor'easter pummeled the SS Pendleton on Feb. 18, 1952, causing the oil tanker to be broken in two a mile off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/08/08/little-known-role-of-jimmy-doolittle-nagasaki-atomic-bombing.html Military-history urn:uuid:ebb88831-2fc6-5a9e-79fd-05576f3ef384 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:42:19 +0000 Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and Doolittle as a lieutenant general also had a little-known role by happenstance in the last strike. https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/ford-gpw-forgotten-military-jeep.html Military-history urn:uuid:50d4d2f9-f9e4-181f-bc97-bf321b05b048 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:20:07 +0000 Think you know Jeeps? Think again. Buckle up for the story of how Ford helped win World War II and create an automotive icon in the process. https://www.military.com/off-duty/books/ulysses-s-grant-picked-confederate-slave-owner-take-down-kkk.html Military-history urn:uuid:600d35fa-d3e8-6269-a65d-ed49e56535b7 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:56:38 +0000 Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s exhaustively researched new book on what amounted to the twilight of the Reconstruction era, “Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan.” https://www.military.com/wwii-airman-survived-3-months-alaskan-wilderness Military-history urn:uuid:af116c19-7f4f-7081-abe9-6161838299e1 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:33:17 +0000 Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed in Alaska on Dec. 21, 1943. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/03/presidents-sometimes-use-4th-of-july-celebrations-unveil-major-policies-most-times-they-dont.html Military-history urn:uuid:d8167214-e07a-a13f-d63f-977bb413b196 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:41:48 +0000 The past offered little guidance for President Donald Trump on whether to make a major policy announcement on the Fourth of July, although he has invited the B-2 Spirit pilots who flew the mission against Iran last week to the White House for the occasion. https://www.military.com/history/soldier-was-born-life-of-crime-somehow-he-became-medal-of-honor-recipient.html Military-history urn:uuid:a93c9ba3-22af-533d-26b5-3dc836abd165 Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:31:00 +0000 Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I. https://www.military.com/history/key-battles-american-revolution Military-history urn:uuid:35f27a8c-6e37-a08c-f822-1529c26bc74c Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:39:02 +0000 Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots hope and encouraged more people to join the fight. https://www.military.com/history/honoring-the-four-chaplains.html Military-history urn:uuid:c9fd3085-66c4-8535-d02a-cc66ff19f9d4 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:23:46 +0000 Feb. 3 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the United States Army Transport Dorchester and the selfless acts of four Army chaplains aboard during World War II.