After joining the French resistance in 1944, Marthe Cohn spent a month in Germany, passing as a German nurse while making small talk with SS officers and Nazi soldiers, gathering information about troop movements. Her spying is credited with saving the lives of Allied troops pressing in on the Reich.

Alfred Uhalt, 93, was flying planes before he could legally drive. Not long after he turned 27, Uhlt enlisted in the Air Force Reserve and began a 27-year military career that included a Silver Star for saving a platoon of Army Rangers from a Viet Cong ambush.

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but wound up in the middle of an interagency feud amid a lingering $8 million debt.

In the latest episode of the VA’s weekly show The BLUF, Marine Corps veteran Sarah Kallassy discusses the department’s Caregiver Support Program.

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student, died May 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.

The Coast Guard was using a method to determine back pay that shortchanged hundreds of veterans and must stop, according to federal court documents filed Friday in a yearslong lawsuit over retention panels found to have illegally thinned noncommissioned officers from the service.

The new national war memorial called “Flames of Honor” will commemorate post-9/11 service members who died in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Navy corpsman killed during the Battle of Okinawa will be the first American in five years added to a memorial on the island commemorating the battle.

Joe Don Baker went into the U.S. Army for two years and then emerged in New York, where he studied at the Actors Studio. His acting career took off in the mid-1960s when he moved to Los Angeles, where he started with TV roles before taking the spotlight as a leading man in movies like “Walking Tall” and some James Bond films.

A Florida veteran who used a falsified military discharge form to secure government jobs and unearned benefits has been sentenced to federal prison.