Buried under the Kent coast for 50 years was a secret Second World War gun emplacement. In 2023, Fan Bay No.3 Gun Emplacement was excavated and restored and it is now open to the public. Part of the ...

When Darrell and Dorothy Bush married in 1943, Dorothy was only 17 years old, and 18-year-old Darrell had just reported for ...

Memorial Day weekend 2020, I joined the Stories Behind the Stars project. This volunteer-led project honors the 421,000+ ...

During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

Fort A.P. Hill was once named after a Confederate general. Now it’s named after three Union soldiers whose surnames are ...

U.S. Army Air Force Corporal Melvin L. Huff was just 19 years old when he was killed in what is now Papua New Guinea. That ...

(AP Photo/John Leicester). World War II veteran Wilbur “Jack” Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army’s 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young ...

It was an agency that fell under the auspices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines, conduct special operations, propaganda, subversion, and sabotage.

“It was a secret war that the US was fighting.” As the US Army was training the Triple ... like his Triple Nickles patch and his World War II jacket. “It means the world to me.

John Galvin became an ace pilot during WWII, but his most prized award may have been his Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia. By Jon Guttman After the war, Dahl entered the U.S. Army Air Forces ...

The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was created in 1942, after the US had entered the fight against ... meaning they received the same rank insignia, pay and allowances as men. During the war, Life ...

But the two special visitors had been to Camp Shanks before – they were among the soldiers of the 65th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army to ship ... the largest World War II port of embarkation.