Brooksville Raid organizers cited the pandemic and declining profitability as factors. Those who commented on the Facebook post also mentioned declining interest among young people and the recent racial unrest across the country.

For decades, hundreds of thousands of people descended on the now-closed air base in Weymouth, Rockland and Abington for weekend air shows, which featured stunt pilots, fighting jets and sometimes even the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, from around the country.

The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is approaching next month and Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams remembers where he was when he got the news the conflict was over.

A sword that was presented to a Massachusetts soldier in 1863, lost to the enemy and then found in a foot locker in the Confederate soldier's family, now resides in the Clinton Historical Society archives.

Live fire weapons demonstrations will be part of a day’s worth of World War II reenactments, held aboard the USS LST 393 Veterans Museum, the historic warship docked in downtown Muskegon, on Saturday.

A German court on Thursday convicted a 93-year-old former SS private of being an accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard in the final months of World War II. He was given a two-year suspended sentence.

The top U.S. diplomat says the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 was “a criminal act” and draws parallel with present-day Russia’s military maneuvers in Ukraine and Georgia.

Leonard “Max” Schroeder would have been 102 this month. The Linthicum, Md., native died at age 90 — remarkable, given the role he played in World War II. Because on D-Day, 1944, Capt. Schroeder became the first American soldier to hit the sand at Normandy.

Bart “Doc” Fabian received his second Silver Star more than five decades after he earned it in a fierce battle at an enemy base camp in Vietnam during which he saved the lives of 10 other soldiers.

It took 67 years, but Korean War veteran Donald L. Roy received the Bronze Star medal last week that he was awarded decades ago for service as an Army medic.

Global events throughout history have often had negative consequences for children. In July 1915, however, events in northern Europe had many children in the United States, celebrating.

It was June 22, 1864. The small Massachusetts regiment was surrounded and overwhelmed. First Lt. William J. Coulter, one of four officers in the unit, relinquished his sword, the ultimate act of defeat on the field of battle.

Plans to build the first phase of an $11 million mounted warfare museum at Fort Hood, Texas, have been approved after nearly 10 years of planning, fundraising and designing, the foundation spearheading the facility announced.

The measure would approve benefits for Vietnam War veterans suffering form bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hypertension and Parkinson’s-like symptoms – conditions thought to be caused by exposure to the chemical herbicide Agent Orange.

The 75th anniversary of Trinity is worth marking, if not celebrating, on Thursday both as a scientific achievement and as a signpost of the challenge that humankind has faced ever since to manage its own capacity to self-destruct.

Nearly a century after a brutal race massacre left as many as 300 black people dead, this city began to dig Monday for suspected mass graves from the violence.

The question wasn’t who wanted United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dead. The question was, who didn’t?

A new funding bill would prevent military construction funds from being used for projects on installations named after Confederate generals from the Civil War.

The Fourth of July holds a special place in local resident Jim Picard's heart for two reasons. He spent 26 years in the Air Force living overseas, stationed in Sicily and England. And Independence Day is his birthday.

A House committee on Wednesday approved a measure in the annual defense funding bill that would ban the display of Confederate flags on all Defense Department property.

More people will be allowed to attend funerals at Arlington National Cemetery starting Monday as the site moves to the next step of its phased reopening.

Tyler Stalter looked at the sonar map of the ocean floor off Pacific Beach and saw an unusual rectangular, dark spot. Then, diving to the spot, he approached a wreck with a flashlight in hand. He was expecting a barge, but why would a barge have a rubber tire on a metal rim?

By all accounts, Frederick Douglass, the great orator and abolitionist, was not pleased with the Emancipation Memorial, which depicted Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation while towering over a kneeling black man who had broken his chains.

GALLERY

The race is on to identify remains of as many service members as possible from the incident, in which a C-124 Globemaster slammed into a mountain during a flight from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

Built in 1841, the Olde Towne Portsmouth house has played support roles during wartime. Military royalty has been married in its foyer.

The Confederate flag is a symbol that tourists are used to seeing in Gettysburg, Pa. They can buy Confederate bath mats and bikinis in town gift shops, or order one of eight burgers named after Confederate generals at a local bar. And across Gettysburg National Military Park, about two dozen of the more than 1,300 monuments are dedicated to the Confederacy and its soldiers.

Marvin Strombo, a United States Marine who as a young man on war-torn islands of the Pacific saw humanity at its worst and journeyed to Japan at age 93 to display it at its best, died Tuesday night.

The Korean War doesn’t garner the same attention as World War II, which preceded it, or the Vietnam War, which followed. But it should be remembered as a victory, said 90-year-old Air Force veteran Paul Cunningham.

Sometime on Dec. 17, 1944, a plane flown by U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Elwood Lawson of Escondido was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire in the skies over the Italian coastal city of La Spezia and it crashed into the Ligurian Sea.

When it comes to Confederate markers, you’re unlikely to find a place with as many such examples than in Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg National Military Park.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

The Korean War is often called the “Forgotten War” in the U.S. because the stalemated conflict was overshadowed between World War II and Vietnam, but its legacy looms large over the divided peninsula. In a special report, Stars and Stripes marks the 70th anniversary of the conflict, which began on June 25, 1950.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

Hannah Kim has met 1,200 Korean War heroes and visited memorials in all 50 states as well as those in U.S. territories and foreign countries that participated in the conflict.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

More than five million Americans served in the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953; more than two million of them are still alive. Here are some of their memories.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

The possibility of dying from friendly fire was a worry for Franklin Chang, one of a small group of Chinese American Marines who fought in the Korean War.

The only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor had it taken away more than a century ago just before she died, then posthumously restored by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Dr. Mary Walker's story is now on exhibit at a heritage center in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rudy Maiorana was running down a hillside trying to flee a wave of oncoming Chinese soldiers. Through the confusion, terror, smoke and explosions, he heard a voice cry out: "I need help. I can't see." Every day since that November 1950 attack on the Korean peninsula, Mairorana says he thinks of that American GI who cried out.

Richard Downes was 3 years old when his father, Air Force Lt. Hal Downes, went missing in action in January 1952. "When you just don't know, you grow up with that void that is never filled until you learn what happened," Downes said.

As far as is known, 14 U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel from Walla Walla County died in the Korean War. But as yet there isn't a local memorial for these warriors.

“Today’s cancellation is based on the uncertainty if the state of Ohio will permit a large gathering event due to safety concerns and if military aircraft will be able to participate,” the show said in a release.

Portraits of former House speakers who served in the Confederacy will no longer hang in the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.

PT-59, which was the boat then future president John F. Kennedy commanded after PT-109, sank 45 years ago in Manhattan's North Cove, an urban wetland off the Harlem River.

The Robert E. Lee statue that soars over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. was designed to seem untouchable. But now that it might come down, the figure has connected with the community below in surprising ways.

Chandra Mundra had planned to spend an entire week in West Point, N.Y., for his son’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy. Then the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.

A process to rename 10 Army posts named in honor of Confederate generals from the Civil War would be established by a new bipartisan House bill introduced Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump said he would not consider the changes.

The 5.7 million Americans who served in the Korean "police action" are mostly in their late 70s and 80s now. And, like their former commander, Douglas MacArthur, memory of America's "Forgotten War" is mostly fading away.

Less than four months after D-Day – the bloody beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944 – a baby-faced Ed Sullivan, then only 20 years old, arrived on the shores of Normandy, France, with the U.S. Army's 170th General Hospital.

The American soldier kneels in the grass, bent over the empty white body bag, inscribing the name of the dead GI who will shortly be placed inside. The small moment amid the vast World War II invasion of Nazi-occupied France was captured by an anonymous Navy photographer with Combat Photography Unit 8.

Thursday's demonstrations, which capped a week of protests that first were extremely violent but eventually eased in tensions as the week went on, took on a different flavor in light of proposals from state and Richmond leaders to rid Monument Avenue of all of its Confederate memorials.

Irene Triplett's father, who'd served as a private in the Confederate Army before defecting to the Union, was on his second marriage when she was born in 1930. He was just a few weeks away from turning 84.

For the Pan Am flight attendants, there were no parades after the war, nor much movement to celebrate their role or their place as accidental pioneers in military history.

Half a century after serving in Vietnam, Bob Shaw — disabled from prostate cancer he says was a side effect of exposure to Agent Orange — volunteers at shelters run by Catholic Community Services in Seattle.

A 30-year Army veteran who was the longest continuously serving Ranger in Vietnam and one of the war’s most decorated enlisted soldiers has died.

Images posted to social media showed graffiti on the memorial's central fountain which read, "Do black vets count?"

Herbert Stempel, the Bronx-born brainiac who became a central figure and whistleblower in the game show rigging scandals of the 1950s, died April 7 at age 93.

For Samuel James Hanna, D-Day was not the first time he had experienced a massive operation to bring soldiers, tanks, equipment and supplies to a beachhead.

During the final days of the war, Aldean Mason's unit entered Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. There, dhe cared for Holocaust survivors, treating them for typhus and malnutrition, among other illnesses.

A man who died from injuries he suffered in a fire Monday at his family’s rural California home was a World War II and Korean war veteran who learned criminal investigation in the Army and became director of the U.S. Army Crime Laboratories.

Hermann Historica, an auction house in Munich, Germany, expected to take in about $5,000 for the medal, which was awarded to Army Pvt. Thomas Kelly for his actions during the Spanish-American War.

The Congressional Gold Medal was to be awarded collectively to the Chinese veterans — approximately 90% of whom are now deceased — in an April 29 ceremony in the U.S. Capitol before the pandemic caused its postponement.

On Nov. 11, 1899, Maj. John A. Logan Jr. was killed during the Philippine-American War. His father, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan Sr., is credited with starting the tradition that has become Memorial Day.

E. Royce Williams is being called a forgotten hero in a forgotten war — a military pilot whose heroic action was never fully recognized because his mission was filed away as top secret.

National Guard troops based in Western New York and elsewhere around the country rushed to the nation's aid when the Covid-19 pandemic struck – but now the federal government wants to cut short their deployments one day before many of them qualify for valuable federal benefits.

At 22, huddling close to fellow soldiers for warmth saved Bernard Mayrsohn’s life. At 96, keeping away from people is doing the same.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said headstones of German POWs should be removed because their swastika symbols are “a stain on the hallowed ground where so many veterans and their families are laid to rest.”

Abraham "Abie" Jenkins He was the post-military husband of local military legend Mary Owens Jenkins. Family members had believed for decades that the two were buried side-by-side at her grave marker; however, nothing was ever verified regarding Abraham until recently.

With so many staples of daily life out of reach, digital stenographers are reaching into history to put their quarantine time to good use, soothing their psyches in the process.

The people who want to add the names of those killed on the USS Frank E. Evans to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington keep running into a different kind of wall: Congress.

The Honor Flight Network, which sends veterans to tour the war memorials in Washington, D.C., said Thursday that it would cancel trips to the nation’s capital through the end of August.

Several employees of the National WWI Museum and Memorial now spend their days transcribing archival letters and getting to know their writers — the American soldiers who fought in the war. Their roles have been reimagined in an effort to keep museum staff on the payroll.

Fact-checking an old claim that taps was found scribbled on a piece of paper in the pocket of a dead Confederate soldier found on the battlefield by his father, a Union captain.

The Rainbow Beach Victory Garden is the last surviving veteran of Chicago’s contingent in a homefront brigade of World War II.

Galina Brok-Beltsova is the last surviving member of Stalin's three famous all-female air regiments and one of the dwindling cadre of World War II veterans in Russia — and among its wartime allies and foes.

The 1944 Dodge WC-57 Command Car 4x4 military vehicle, which is said to have been specifically modified for Gen. George S. Patton, will be sold with no reserve. However. vehicle lacks specific documentation confirming its authenticity.

Seventy-five years ago, throngs filled the streets of Paris, London, Moscow and New York to celebrate Victory in Europe Day, but on Friday as the world marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat the ceremonial pomp will be muted.

On Friday, the world marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II. We've rounded up some related images.

Veterans who were active military in posts around the world 50 years ago recall that when they heard about the Kent State shootings there was, among those in their unit, confusion and disbelief that American soldiers had fired upon citizens.

The 13-second burst of gunfire on May 4, 1970 – the culmination of four days of riots and tension between the Guard and protestors – changed Kent State, the anti-Vietnam War movement and the already deep generational divide in the United States.

The Allentown, Pa. school board tabled naming a new elementary school for Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, the first female general in the Army, after community members expressed concern that the suggestion does not reflect the district’s diverse student body.

While the experience we’re living through now feels unprecedented, Crawford Scott’s letters to his then-girlfriend (and eventual wife) Minerva shine a light on the similarities people dealt with in the last major global pandemic.

COLUMN

With their first-ever draft pick in 1936, the Pittsburgh Steelers chose a bona fide celebrity, a dazzling Notre Dame man who’d thrown the winning pass in the greatest college game ever played. He never played a down in the NFL, but he did fight in the Battle of the Bulge.

Analysis

The New Deal's legacy still provides support today. Unemployment insurance. Retirement and disability income. Transparency in the stock markets. Infrastructure that ensures a steady flow of electricity and supply of water. Yet the coronavirus outbreak has also revealed how ill-equipped the government was to address the rapidly escalating fallout of 26 million job losses

It’s not every day you see a World Warr II-era ship lifted into the air and placed into a storage lot, but it was the position of this particular “Higgins Boat" on its way to being restored to its former glory.

No signs of the vessel that Jaclyn Urmey studied had been recorded since the 1980s, when the area was surveyed for highway and bridge projects for Interstate 295, and she was determined to find out if there was anything left.

Gilbert de la O fought in and survived one of the bloodiest and little-known early battles of the war -- Operation Abilene.