The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron’s “Rise Above” Traveling Exhibit at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport features a movie theater, a fully operational Red Tail P-51C Mustang, and appearances by Retired Tuskegee Airmen pilot Lt. Col. George E. Hardy.

More than a century on from the carnage that saw around 44,000 Allied soldiers killed and an estimated 250,000 Turkish casualties, memories of the Gallipoli campaign have resurfaced in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings that saw 50 people killed.

Fish in the Cuyahoga River, which became synonymous with pollution when it caught fire in Cleveland in 1969, are now safe to eat, federal environmental regulators say.

A Civil War flag that was carried by a Maine regiment into battles in Louisiana and Texas and later passed down by a family in Colorado completed a 156-year journey through history last week when it arrived back in Maine.

One day about 200 years ago, a woman enslaved on a tobacco plantation tossed aside the broken stem of the clay pipe she was smoking in the slave quarters where she lived. The stem bore bore marks where she had clenched it in her teeth and something else she could never have imagined: her DNA.

Of the 3,515 Medals of Honor awarded by the United States, some 2,018 have gone to Irish-Americans, according to Patrick McDermot of Irish Veterans Post 2 in Tampa, Fla.. To help explain the numbers, recipient James Charles McCloughan turned to history.

A former British soldier will be charged in the slayings of two civil rights protesters 47 years ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland.

Richard King, who has tried for decades to find a B-29 bomber that disappeared over Minnesota on a training run on July 14, 1945, will talk about his World War II experiences in the Army Air Forces during a presentation March 18.

Elizabeth Washburn didn't plan on starting an arts nonprofit, but it couldn't really be helped. After reading about military casualties in Iraq in 2007, she wanted to help, and started offering free art classes by volunteering at the Naval Medical Center San Diego (Balboa Hospital). Later, she turned that series of classes into her nonprofit, Combat Arts San Diego.

They were quietly buried at Washington Crossing National Cemetery without fanfare: unknown veterans who served their country, but had no one to pay their last respect for the final leg of their journey.

Walking through the Baltimore Museum of Art's new surrealism show, one senses the world getting busier, more chaotic and confusing, roiling with dark forces and demonic ambitions. "Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s" connects art to a moment in history when traditional politics was failing in spectacular and horrifying ways.

A thrilling discovery inside a small, nondescript box left behind after an Orlando man's death has local history enthusiasts extremely excited. The box, uncovered recently by a couple that purchased the man's home, contains a Civil War-era Medal of Honor given to a Union soldier from Toledo, Ohio

At the height of World War II, as darkness descended on the battlefields, a nightmare would appear in German skies: The "Night Witches," as the Germans called the 80 or so female aviators from Russia dropping bombs from rickety wooden planes.

Bertha Dupre, who died at the age of 97, was part of the only all-black unit of women deployed to Europe in World War II. Thanks to the efforts of strangers, she'll be buried with military honors this month.

Tucked away in an alcove was something Mary Jane Clark Fair had lost track of many years ago — a brief holiday missive from her brother, Sp4 James L. Clark, who served in Vietnam in 1968-69. He sent the holiday greeting less than a year before he died on July 25, 1969.

Dale Mette unintentionally became the unofficial historian for the former crew of LST 751, the ship his father, Wilmer, served on in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The Supreme Court is expected to decide whether a giant cross, a memorial dedicated to 49 local men killed in World War I, is in keeping with the Constitution’s First Amendment and the separation of church and state. The outcome of the case could affect other veterans memorials nationwide.

The sister of an Air Force flight surgeon who went missing during the Vietnam War urged Macon-Bibb County, Ga. officials to not rename an interstate interchange currently named in honor of her brother.

Walk-on access to the USS Arizona Memorial won’t be restored by the end of March, as previously announced by the National Park Service, and it may be many more months before access resumes, officials said.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Enoch Woodhouse, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, spent little time talking about himself Monday at Fort Bragg. Instead, he focused on the story of two others: Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a 1938 West Point graduate and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, and Navy Capt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient.

For the Vietnamese child who became known as “the napalm girl,” the searing burns, the years of surgery and the heavy scarring were only the beginning of her torment.

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For nearly 40 years, Bill Burhans has maintained he wasn’t drunk when, as an Air Force lieutenant colonel driving U.S. military liaisons home from a holiday party in East Germany, he lost control of the car and slammed into a bus. A Stasi report has come to light that clears his name. But is it too little, too late?

Legislation passed in 2015 granted the former hostages up to $4.44 million each. But only a fraction of the money has come through. The former hostages say compensation fund is shrinking as relatives of 9/11 victims gain access.

No one at Virginia's Department of Historic Resources realized what encrusted, corroded balls were when they were excavated in the 1980s along with 5,000 other relics from The Betsy, a British ship sunk in the York River in 1781. Decades later, they turned out to be hand grenades.

Known for portraying World War II heroes and stalwart figures of the American West, the famed actor apparently did all he could to avoid military service in World War II, led efforts to help Sen. Joseph McCarthy hunt down Communists in Hollywood and held views about race that many say were retrograde in 1971.

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"I'm head of a very dangerous group of senior citizens," says OSS Society president Charles Pinck, slouched across from me at a table in Le Pain Quotidien's Georgetown outpost in Washington, D.C.

In the summer of 1776, New York’s royal governor, William Tryon, and David Mathews, the loyalist mayor of New York City, together worked on a way to help the British from behind enemy lines.

UK resident Tony Foulds will soon see his wish come true: A flyover will honor the memory of the Americans who died when their stricken bomber crashed beyond a park field, saving his life when he was a boy.

Veterans' stories recorded on video will be preserved in the Rock County Historical Society’s archives and will be available as learning tools for schools and community members.

On Sunday, the Springfield Chapter of the National Association for Black Veterans joined the Shirley Jackson Whitaker Foundation and Stone Soul Inc. in recognizing present-day patriots who served in the military as well as those who have died.

Before the forced integration of Warren County High, Warren County had never had a high school for African Americans. They had to attend black high schools in neighboring counties such as Prince William or Culpeper, often living as boarders because the schools were too far away to commute to each day.

When Clyde Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army’s 9th Cavalry Regiment in 1942, he had never heard of the buffalo soldiers. He did not know that he would become part of the storied, complicated legacy of the all-black regiments of the U.S. military.

New Mexico played a prominent role in the birth of the Atomic Age. Research and development of the atomic bomb was done at Los Alamos, and the first successful bomb test was conducted at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range. It is fitting that America’s only congressionally-chartered museum that highlights nuclear science and history is located in the Land of Enchantment.

It will be 40 years to the day Monday that Yvonne Kaehler opened the door of the Mashpee home she shared with her husband, Bruce, to find the chaplain and base commander waiting on her doorstep. "Of course you know what's going to happen when the chaplain's standing there," Kaehler said.

On Monday, June 25, 1973, about 7 p.m., a Polish army lieutenant colonel slipped into an unremarkable apartment in Hamburg. Soon he was face-to-face with a stranger, an American in wire-rimmed glasses who was introduced to him as "Daniel." The American sought to put him at ease, speaking to him in Polish: "I'm from the CIA, and I'm delighted to be here to work with you."

Four Directions Inc. sent letters last week to President Trump and other federal officials asking for the removal of 20 Medals of Honor that were awarded to soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, which killed perhaps 250 or more Native Americans.

Johns Hopkins University plans to make over a 1930s-era hospital building on the edge of its Homewood campus that was originally established by Congress to care for sick and disabled seamen.

Bill Norris, 97, piloted B-24 Liberator bombers in perilous attacks on German targets during World War II. Just after the war, as an Air Force test pilot, he was among the first Americans to probe the boundaries of flight in jet-engine aircraft.

Yukio Kawamoto, a Japanese American who served as a U.S. Army combat intelligence specialist and interpreter in the Pacific during World War II, even as his parents were interned in a detention camp for ethnic Japanese living in America, died Jan. 7 at his home in Springfield, Va. He was 99.

The cream-colored powder horn was delicately inscribed and decorated by Gershom Prince, a free African American who was slain in the bloody, but not widely known, Battle of Wyoming, the only black soldier to die there on that grim day, July 3, 1778.

Jack Beetz, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot and former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, discovered a small, two-cycle gas engine OQ-2 aircraft in an antique store and painstakingly refurbished it.

The Dover Air Force Base museum's observance of the Normandy invasion's 75th anniversary will feature a jump by up to 200 U.S. Army parachutists from the 82nd Airborne Division as well as an appearance of That’s All Brother, a C-47 Skytrain that led more than 800 aircraft in the invasion.

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The Newseum is shrinking into an uncertain future, the distress sale of its building to Johns Hopkins University marking the end of a troubled tenure that has become a cautionary tale of bloated budgets and unrealized ambition.

Bugles Across America was founded in 2000 after Congress passed legislation guaranteeing deceased veterans the right to at least two uniformed military personnel to fold the flag, as well as taps performed on a CD player.

Like other history interpreters at attractions around the country (and world), Elizabeth Keaney and Mary Wiseman function as educational time travelers in a tech-crazed modern world.

The U.S. Army was on an ambitious timeline to put an American satellite into space or risk losing to the Navy, which also wanted the glory of accomplishing the feat. On Jan. 29, 1958, the Army had 48 hours left to deliver — and it planned to launch. But John Meisenheimer, the range’s only meteorologist, wasn’t budging.

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High atop a cliff on Cape Cod overlooking what was once one of the world's most dangerous maritime routes is a decaying relic of the Cold War, the former North Truro Air Force Station.

Each year in Davos, Switzerland, world leaders, corporate titans, celebrities and other members of the global elite gather for a week of glitzy discussions on the state of the world. But during World War II, long before the modern confab started in 1971, the city of Davos gathered together a surreal collection of residents that included Nazis, Jews and downed U.S. military pilots.

Johns Hopkins University is buying the landmark Pennsylvania Avenue building in Washington, D.C. that houses the Newseum in a $372.5 million deal announced Friday that will enable the struggling cultural institution devoted to news and the First Amendment to seek a new home in the area.

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Some of the most notable U.S. military actions in Latin America include establishing a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in 1903 and the invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983.

About 150 soldiers, their families and local dignitaries watched as the flag was unveiled in its new home.

As president of the Continental Congress in 1787, Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair preceded George Washington as head of the new American government.

With all the Smithsonians and the National Gallery of Art closed by the federal shutdown, now's a good time to visit D.C.'s lesser-known museums — like the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

Researchers say they have found a new clue in the sinking of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine that sank the USS Housatonic off Charleston, S.C., in 1864. New clues show a broken pipe may have been to blame.

To this day, Silvia Foti is not sure if she was supposed to expose or exonerate her grandfather Jonas Noreika. In Lithuania, he is remembered as General Storm. Streets are named for him. But a court is deciding if he was a hero or a Nazi collaborator.

When Capt. Alan Carlton’s B-24 bomber was shot down over Germany during World War II, he felt lucky. He survived, after all. Now, 75 years later, Carlton has another reason to feel lucky about what happened that day.

The breakdown of negotiations with congressional Democrats means it's becoming more likely that President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency to build a wall on U.S. southern border -- an extraordinary action sure to draw lawsuits and consternation on both sides of the aisle.

For decades, the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico had been little more than an imaginary line in the sand, marked only by the occasional pillar in the Sonoran desert. But rampant smuggling, the Mexican Revolution and the outbreak of World War I had split a border town in two, sowing fear and stoking tensions.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Arnold Austin of Warrior, Ala. was accounted for in September 2018, 77 years after his death on board the USS Oklahoma.

A proposal to possibly move Durham’s crumpled Confederate soldier statue to a historically black, city-owned cemetery angered a county leader Tuesday, who compared it to honoring Nazi soldiers on Jewish burial grounds.

On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea attacked and captured the USS Pueblo and its crew. While eventually released, not all of the crew made it home. None of them came back unscathed. The ship remains in North Korea. One survivor is fighting to change that.

In April 1918, during World War I, a pilot flew over the District of Columbia, rallying crowds at a parade and raising money for troops overseas. The uniformed pilot flying above the houses of Washington power was a woman - Ruth Law. Change was literally in the air.

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Clifford Moore, who died at age 99 on Dec. 29, kept his war experiences mostly to himself until July 2012, when he issued a five-page memoir about his time as a B-17 pilot, including his months in German captivity.

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Pentagon officials have better things to do, I'm sure, than reply to strange questions from civilians about monsters, but I got a response to mine the morning after I sent it. "I've never heard of it," the DOD's deputy chief historian at the time replied to a question about "the glitch of the Pentagon," described in the Columbia Encyclopedia as "responsible for general chaos."

On New Year's morning of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, decreeing "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious Southern states "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Many abolitionists criticized Lincoln's action as too limited. The proclamation purported to free millions of slaves in the Southern states that had seceded from the Union. It exempted 850,000 slaves in border states and parts of three Southern states that were not in rebellion.

Rusting, cracked and covered in dead leaves, three relics of Navy aviation sit rotting in an overgrown field in Temple, Texas – a far cry from their glory days of fighting for America in the skies over Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 1934, Howard University students spoke out against lynching by looping nooses around their necks. More than eight decades later, two students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fastened nooses around their necks amid demonstrations against a Confederate monument on their campus.

Alfred Procopio Jr. left the Navy in 1967, decorated with medals for his service on the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier deployed off the coast of Vietnam. He also came home with health problems the U.S. government has linked to exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange.

Word War II veteran Bruce Benson, 94, has made it a daily routine to play music in honor of the country’s past and current military members. He’s regularly joined by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Dave Bergland, 55.

An honorary major in the U.S. Army, Clifford Rousseau has spent decades working on tanks, crossing paths with decorated leaders and proving his merit on bases in Washington and Alaska. He’s done it all despite suffering from cerebral palsy, which makes it difficult for him to walk and speak.

For more than 30 years, the Francis Land House has taught elementary students about a wealthy plantation owner and slavery during the early 1800s. But that's about to change.

Which items of the past are worth keeping? Which spoils of war should be preserved? And which symbols of hatred are better off consigned to history's trash heap?

In a community in which many older residents oppose illegal immigration and younger ones tend to lean left politically, the controversy is just the latest to underscore the generational divide among those of Vietnamese descent.

On Jan. 9, 1943, as World War II raged, President Franklin Roosevelt left Washington on a train heading north. It was a misdirection. What followed made history.

Many famous musicians have served in the armed forces, but it’s unlikely that any assignment to Europe influenced the history of rock ’n’ roll and country music as much as when Johnny Cash learned to play the guitar here.

Christmas, first brought to this nation by American missionaries in the late 19th century and designated a public holiday under U.S. military rule in the 1940s, has evolved into a very different kind of celebration than the one across the Pacific.

On Christmas Eve in 1968, the world paused to watch telecasts of pictures of the moon and Earth taken from lunar orbit. As they circled the moon, the American astronauts read passages from the Book of Genesis in a powerful moment of calm. But the first manned mission to orbit the moon was rocky, chaotic and fearful.

A Hawaii historian and researcher is looking to preserve an old Quonset hut on Oahu that was possibly part of a segregated encampment for black laborers and enlisted men during World War II.

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The Oscar-winning director best known for the "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" films turned his attention to modernizing World War I footage. Using advanced techniques, Peter Jackson created an intensely gripping, immersive look at the Great War.

On a windy morning in December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright changed history when they became the first to fly “an air machine” for just 12 seconds. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Ohio state officials celebrated the 115th anniversary of their first flight on Monday

A five-by-four-foot plate of steel, salvaged from the wreck of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor and seen as an important relic for holding onto the history and lessons of World War II, made its final journey on Monday morning.

For 52 years, Paul Schultz never revealed details about his Vietnam War service. The closest he got was telling his sons that they owed their lives to his best friend in Vietnam.

The African American Veterans Monument Committee is one giant step closer to their fundraising goal thanks to a $200,000 joint grant from Delaware North and M&T Bank.

The event would lead to the largest ever mass expulsion in West Point history and change forever the Academy's culture and even its architecture. And it very nearly changed forever the fortunes of one of America's most important 19th century figures.

A 24-acre plot of land on Grays Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia has been associated with the Navy since 1827 and has the unusual distinction of being the final resting place of Dexter, the Navy’s last working horse.

After 73 years, Joseph Natvik is finally home. An airman in the U.S. Army serving in World War II, Natvik perished when his C-109 aircraft crashed in the treacherous terrain known ominously as "The Hump," between India and China on July 17, 1945. The crash occurred about a month before the end of World War II.

Halfway through Bruce Springsteen's solo act on Broadway, the Boss reminisces about two bar-band rockers he idolized in New Jersey in the 1960s. But the memories about a pair of little-known musicians takes a sorrowful turn: Walter was killed in 1968 in the Vietnam War, a disclosure that, following such loving tributes, prompted slight gasps in the audience.

A museum exhibit opened here Thursday with a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s occupation of Germany at the end of World War I, a period in the interwar years that historians said is often forgotten.

Poway, Calif. said goodbye in grand and patriotic fashion to its most famous citizen, Ray Chavez, who until his death at age 106 last month, was the nation’s oldest surviving Pearl Harbor veteran.

The nearly 32-year-old tradition of a Memorial Day motorcycle ride through Washington, D.C. is ending because of escalating costs and a lack of cooperation from the Pentagon and metropolitan police departments, according to a letter shared by Artie Muller, a Vietnam veteran and founder of Rolling Thunder.

A reunion of sorts Wednesday in O’Hara saw four 1942 graduates of Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse High School reminiscing as if seven decades hadn’t passed since they were classmates.

As a 15-year-old student, Ardmore resident and former Marine Cpl. Glenn Mitchell heard President Franklin Delano Roosevelt say the famed phrase “a date which will live in infamy” and later fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

What stood before a team of riggers at the National Museum of the Marine Corps last week looked like a piece of cosmic sculpture, and a remnant of some terrible tragedy. In a way, it was both.

The museum covers the multifaceted activities that unfolded in Georgia's Golden Isles during the war years, from military training and Naval airship patrols to civilian shipbuilding, volunteering and sacrifice.

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Jefferson Davis was loathed by much of his military, Congress and the public — even before the Confederacy died on his watch. Since then, several historians have made the case that, regardless of whether Davis was a hero or a traitor, he was a lousy president.

A helicopter crash in Kuwait provides the green Mortuary Affairs unit members with a chance to learn about recovery scenes from experts of the National Transportation Safety Board. "When sections of the helo burn and melt," Marine Gunnery Sgt. Christian Bussler writes in his memoir. "They can resemble bone or burned flesh."

A World War II B-24 bomber gunner and longtime Kettering resident will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his military service.

Less than a week before being shipped off to Hawaii to serve as a pilot in World War II, 2nd Lt. Elwood Bailey married his high school sweetheart. Two months later, in August 1942, while battling in aerial combat in Guadalcanal in the Pacific, he went missing in action.

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Claude Alexander Rowe Jr. of Chula Vista, who served in the armed forces of two allied nations during World War II, was laid to rest Friday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego with full military honors, including a gun salute and a "missing man" formation flyby of WWII-era fighters. Rowe died on Sept. 20 at age 97.

Jesse Colvin is approaching his quest to unseat Rep. Andy Harris, R, in Maryland's solidly red 1st Congressional District the way one might expect a former military intelligence officer would chase an elusive target. But it could be an ill-fated mission for the first-time candidate.

Former Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II was originally awarded the Silver Star for his actions on April 6, 2008, while assigned to support Special Operations Task Force 33, but his award was upgraded to the nation's highest military honor upon review.

Charles McDaniel, Jr. held onto a precious few things that made his father real. A handwritten letter and a single memory of his dad sweeping him up in his arms. Now there is the dog tag. “This was around my father’s neck,” he said with a tone of wonder that he could ever be this close to him.

In the spring of 1967, Johnnie Ashe, a Marine counting down the days left of his time at war in Vietnam, realized that if he went home, his older brother, who had 15 months left in the Army, could be shipped off to Vietnam.

Ken Spatz never met his father, a B-17 aircraft waist gunner with the same name, who died in World War II. But last week he visited the site where the B-17 crashed and collected a memento — his father’s long-lost high school ring.

“We were in combat immediately with no experience,” Sam Folsom, 98, told Stars and Stripes recently. “Green as can be – very few of us had any real flight experience." He would ultimately leave Guadalcanal with three air-to-air kills.

By the fall of 1942, Casimer L. "Casey" Bukowski decided he had learned enough about being a machinist and quit Emerson Vocational High School to put his skills to work in support of World War II.

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When David Carrasco got to the funeral home on Monday morning, he wasn't sure what he would find. But he wanted to pay his respects to the man who had represented Arizona in the Senate for 31 years, and who had fought in the same faraway Vietnam War he had, decades earlier: Sen. John McCain.

As the Santa Fe Indian School gymnasium began to fill early Friday morning, one face etched with age stood out. Clemente Otero sat with his U.S. Army veteran baseball cap shading his eyes as the assembly around him rose with cheers and applause.

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Frank Denius was a 19-year-old staff sergeant when he and 700 other men of the U.S. Army's 30th Infantry Division – "Old Hickory" – found themselves on a hill in Mortain, Normandy, France, in August 1944 surrounded by four German Panzer divisions, including hundreds of tanks and heavy guns, and 40,000 Nazi troops, among them members of Hitler's elite SS forces.

John Giese has spent his life serving his community and his country: first as a Marine, then as a police officer and police chief, and finally as an elected official.

Retired Gen. John N. Abrams, the former commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, died Monday. He was 71.

William F. Liebenow, a tenacious Navy commander in World War II, died last year at 97. He was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday.

Robert S. White received a Bronze Star Tuesday during a short ceremony at the Hampton VA Medical Center, more than 70 years after he helped liberate Europe from the Nazis.

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“If these men and women are having a bad day, they can come in here, rant, rave, curse, scream, holler – you name it – and we all understand,” Donna Porras said. “We might not have been in their shoes, but we understand.”

Researchers are hoping the discovery of the USS Abner Read brings some awareness about the Aleutian Islands campaign to the American public. For families of the sailors who died, they want the finding to offer some solace.

Retired Army Master Sgt. Polito “Paul” Olivas, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day in 1944 with the 101st Airborne Division, has plans for another parachute drop — but this time with no one shooting at him as he lands.

U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Ruben Bell Jr. has a name, a rank, a hometown, five service medals and several living family members. For 50 years, though, he has remained a ghost.

Ken Dierdorf wanted so badly to sit alongside his Army brothers and feel the rush of air blow through an open-sided UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” one last time at Saturday’s Terre Haute Air Show. But fate, weather and his health wouldn’t allow it.

In the newly released 1.5-minute Air Force video, Tech Sgt. John Chapman can be seen charging up a steep slope toward enemy positions to recover a fellow servicemember who had fallen from the back after the team came under heavy enemy fire from al-Qaida.

Lincoln Parkes, a Navy Air Corps veteran and a veterinarian, first invented and patented a cart that allows disabled animals to walk in the early 1960s, launching a life-long love affair with the craft.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael T. Jeffrey was wounded in Iraq in 2006. He received a Purple Heart in 2012 at the Warrior Transition Unit in Fort Knox, but it wasn't until he made it home that he realized it wasn't his medal. On Tuesday, nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited righted that wrong in an emotional, official ceremony to bestow the honor.

Francisco Joaquin is surely one of the most senior interns in Washington. He is spending the summer in the D.C. Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs, assisting vets, many of them low-income.

Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew "63 and a half" missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito's anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He was 99.

Kentucky is known for its bourbon, and Tennessee for its whiskey. But in Texas, as bold and brazen as the Lone Star State might be, there’s no distinctly Texan liquor. Three veterans are looking to change that.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Rick Spooner, now 92, said he and his wife, Gloria, opened the Globe & Laurel restaurant 50 years ago out of a desire to serve those who put everything — even their lives — on the line for the love of their country.

President Donald Trump will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman for his actions in 2002 on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. He will become the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and just the 19th in the service’s history.

Retired Rear Adm. Alene Duerk spent her career in the Navy’s nursing corps, serving during three major wars and eventually rising to the Navy’s top nurse position, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Retired Army Gen. Ronald Griffith, who commanded a tank division that helped rout Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard in the Persian Gulf War and later served as vice chief of staff of the Army, died July 18 at his home in Arlington, Virginia. He was 82.

Randy Dexter downplays his story. "I'm just a guy with a dog," he said. But Dexter, a 36-year-old combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, and Captain, his 6 1/2 -year-old service dog, saved each other's lives.

The USS John S. McCain, originally christened in 1992 in honor of Sen. John McCain's Navy admiral father and grandfather, was rededicated Thursday to also honor the former Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran.

Bob Hart uses the VA Choice program to receive medical care at a private hospital close to his home near Jacksonville, Ill. He was informed several weeks ago that he owed the hospital for treatment he thought the VA covered.

Bill Huskins got his start in racing when he left the Navy in 1946. At that time, though, there was no regulated series.

Holly "Cargo" Harrison decided to hike the entire Western Hemisphere, and the journey was marked by dog attacks in South America, a life-threatening heart attack in Nevada and a bear attack in Alaska.

While piloting a B-24 on July 12, 1944, 2nd Lt. Kuchwara was shot out of the sky over Germany, crashed and was taken captive there. In May of 2018, his family finally secured him the POW medal that he deserved.

Fewer than 3,000 paratroopers made four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Following the death of retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman, fewer than 16 of those paratroopers are alive today.

The U.S. Army Air Forces airmen were members of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On Nov. 2, 1944, they were part of a nine-man crew that joined an armada of bombers on a mission to Merseburg, Germany.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed during their June 12 summit in Singapore to “recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.” Families of missing servicemembers said it's an important step.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

Out of the ashes of the Battle of Okinawa grew “one of the strongest alliances in the history of alliances,” between the United States and Japan, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson told U.S. Marines attending the memorial.

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The brothers' burial together in Normandy is a culmination of improbable events that included the review of a grave marked “unknown” in Belgium, a high school history project, a military forensics team review and a family gathering in Nebraska.

The school district from which Bob Lockard would have graduated in 1944 wants him to know no one forgot his sacrifices. Lockard will walk with 156 other Circleville Tigers at Sunday's commencement ceremony.

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The citation for retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinksi’s Medal of Honor – an upgrade from the Navy Cross he initially received for his heroics – describes “a murderous hail of machine gun fire” greeting Slabinksi and his commando team as he “charged directly toward the enemy” up the mountainside.

The men bathed in the ocean and lived in tents. They’d repair the planes with aluminum cans or whatever they could get their hands on. And they couldn’t run on the beach because they'd sink in the dark sand and ash mixture from a volcano, Joe Tusa recalled.

Retired Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was done searching. As an adult, he had found his Japanese birth mother and thanked her. He didn't feel a need to find his father, who had been in the U.S. Air Force. Then, a few years ago, he grew curious.

One night in his Virginia home, Jimmy Hatch decided he was ready for all of the pain to stop. His wife had to snatch a gun from his hands and later knock a knife away before Norfolk police and members of his unit arrived to help. He details his painful experiences in his book "Touching the Dragon and Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars.”

A 52-year-old father of three and the 25-year-old survivor of a horrific attack that made headlines 11 years ago met in college and struck up a friendship.

Johnny Pearson and John Noga were swapping stories and sharing laughs one recent Sunday morning, exhibiting an easy rapport and deep camaraderie that suggests the two have a longtime friendship that can weather any obstacle.

When Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) robbed retired Marine Maj. Randy Hebert of his ability to drive his prized Corvette he raffled it off and the money raised paid for the beach access that carries his name.

Richard Overton is both the oldest man in America and the oldest U.S. veteran. He turns 112 on Friday.

Retired Gen. Crosbie Saint was the commander of U.S. Army Europe from 1988 to 1992, a period that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Seventy-five years after Anthony Grant set off on his first overseas trip — to fight in Europe during World War II — he’s still traveling the world courtesy of Uncle Sam.

When Ken Bosworth reminisces about his World War II service in the Marine Corps, it doesn’t exactly match up with Hollywood.

It was the bone-chilling northern European cold that Harry Miller faced as a teenager in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that the Army and Air Force veteran most prominently recalls about his 22-year military career that spanned three major wars.

Representing wars both a lifetime and a world apart, 95-year-old Don Jakeway and 38-year-old Navy Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator and Medal of Honor recipient Edward C. Byers Jr. were honored at a Statehouse ceremony in which they and 28 others were inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame.