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The WWI aviators who gave their lives to help the ‘Lost Battalion’
With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target German forces.
By Jon Guttman
New Marine Corps Museum galleries showcase Iraq, Afghanistan and more
"Every artifact tells a story."
By Todd South
Mustard gas, no mask: This WWI corpsman somehow survived Belleau Wood
Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.
By Jon Guttman
The WWI Marines who became the service’s first Medal of Honor aviators
One of the crew members was struck by an enemy round, but continued to operate his weapon despite his left arm dangling by a single tendon.
By Jon Guttman
Biden honors US war dead with Aisne-Marne American Cemetery visit
President Joe Biden closed out his France trip by paying his respects at an American military cemetery that Donald Trump skipped during his presidency.
A jacket, a coin, a letter: Relics of Omaha Beach tell the D-Day story
Eighty years ago, Allied soldiers crossed the choppy waters of the English Channel to land on Normandy beaches to defeat Hitler’s regime.
By Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution, The Conversation
Want to talk to a WWII vet? AI can help at this New Orleans museum
An AI-powered exhibit will enable visitors to the National WWII Museum to ask questions of war-era heroes and supporters of the U.S. war effort.
Tornado damages buildings, hangars at Wright-Patterson AFB
One of the damaged hangars is involved in restoring the only surviving B-17D Flying Fortress bomber.
New addition to National WWII Museum addresses the conflict’s legacy
Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.
US to destroy its last chemical weapons
The weapons’ destruction alleviates a concern that civic leaders in Colorado and Kentucky admit was always in the back of their minds.
By Andrew DeMillo, Thomas Peipert and Dylan Lovan, AP
Get to know the heroic namesake of the newly christened Fort Johnson
The Army redesignated Fort Polk, Louisiana, as Fort Johnson on June 13.
By J.D. Simkins