Booby-trapped village at Central Coast military base trained troops to fight Nazis
The war required training that learned from past mistakes to help save lives. Today they are called IEDs or improvised ...
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Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper, has died
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...
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Armed men in military uniform attack Uvira bishop’s residence in DR Congo
Armed men in military uniforms stormed the bishop’s residence ... “They threatened us with a gun—one of them was armed—while the other two carried knives,” the bishop recounted.
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Local museum to observe 50th anniversary of Vietnam War’s end
The Miami Valley Military History Museum in Fairborn will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War beginning at 2 p.m. on March 29.
Soldiers sail across the Rhine to mark 80th anniversary of the invasion of Germany
The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.
The new National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington represents our nation’s highest ideals
More than 3,000 service members have received our nation’s highest military honor since 1863. Only one museum tells their stories.
Jackie Robinson's Army history briefly scrubbed from Department of Defense websites
Articles about Navajo Code Talkers and the Iwo Jima flag-raisers have also been removed in the Trump administration's DEI ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
WWII troops took hammers to mosquitoes to battle pests and malaria
Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and ...
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In the Kursk region, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants disguised in Russian uniforms are detained
In the liberated settlements of the Kursk region, representatives of the military police identify and detain militants of the Kiev regime disguised as Russian military personnel. This was reported on ...