People who lost their homes to a March 11, 2011, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown — people still waiting to move into permanent homes after five years — are raising money to help others in need.

Minamisoma, Japan, Feb. 11, 2016: Women sit outside a temporary housing unit at Terauchi Daini housing complex.

U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Anthony Di Petta’s remains were recovered decades after he was killed on a World War II airstrike mission in the Pacific Ocean.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Liberty Station, two free exhibitions — one of them a permanent museum — have opened inside the former Navy base’s Dick Laub NTC Command Center. Both were created by military veterans.

Marjah, Afghanistan, Jan. 23, 2011: Interpreter Ira Quraishi, a member of one of the Marjah-area Female Engagement Teams (FETs), gets a laugh from a local woman who attended a Marine-sponsored meeting with a local midwife to inform the women about hygiene, pregnancy and child care issues.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 departed on a secret mission sanctioned by President John F. Kennedy on Mar. 16, 1962, to fly to Vietnam. The flight went missing and after 61 years, there is still no trace of the plane nor were its passengers ever found.

A veteran of World War I, Oscar Mack received death threats after starting his new government job. Few words were exchanged when a group of men arrived at Mack’s home before shots were fired. A lynch mob searched the city of Kissimmee, Fla., for Mack, but by the end of the week, he was gone.

Vietnam, 1967: Barbara (Bobbie) Oberhansly delivers the weather forecast for Vietnam on Armed Forces Television.

Despite bad weather, Reforger I’s debut in Nuernberg was a spectacular show of timing and coordination, seemingly without opening-day jitters.

Nuernberg, Germany, January 1969: Maj. Callie Carson, the chief nurse of the 5th Surgical Hospital from Fort Knox, Ky., was the only woman involved in Reforger I, the first Reforger exercise.

A historical marker was recently unveiled in honor of 2nd Lt. Thadd H. Blanton, an airman from Gainesville, Texas, who participated in the legendary “Doolittle” air raid over Japan in April 1942.

For more than a half-century, the annual Brotherhood Award has honored the four Army chaplains who gave their lives in the sinking of the troopship Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943. The presentation honors those whose services and devotion in the practice of brotherhood are deserving of community recognition.

Mediterranean Sea, August 1975: Precision parking was a priority on the tightly packed flight deck of the USS Forrestal.

The family of a girl who folded paper cranes in hopes of surviving leukemia after the 1945 Hiroshima bombing hopes to add her story to UNESCO’s world memory program.

The United States Naval Academy and Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership have brought to life stories of Vietnam prisoners of war thanks to an interactive exhibit called the POW Remembrance Challenge.

Qayara Airfield West, Iraq, March 17, 2017: Pfc. Alexandria Campbell helps Sgt. Brandon Bush and Pfc. Shayne Jensen install a .50-caliber machine gun on the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station atop a mine-resistant vehicle on Qayara Airfield West.

Crew members of the USS Oklahoma and bombers shot down during World War II were among the seven service members recently accounted for by the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.

Washington, D.C., May 15, 2019: Former Air Force officer Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., announces the launching of the Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus that will focus on women's issues in the military.

As a young woman in 1940s Seattle, Merlaine “Mikki” Carpenter longed for an adventure. Her parents didn’t believe in women going to college, so she went to work for the Seattle aircraft company Boeing, doing keypunch, an old-fashioned version of typing that involved punching holes into cardstock.