The post-war actions of some that fought for the Confederacy ended up benefiting thousands of Black Virginians placing them in a unique class. As the nation continues to scrutinize segregationist tributes, these men leave murky legacies.

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Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy Manor, whose distinguished military career included commanding the 1970 training of a task force to liberate American prisoners of war far inside enemy lines in Vietnam, died Thursday at the age of 100.

Split evenly for compensatory and punitive damages, the amount is among the largest ever awarded in a state-sponsored terrorism case.

Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park officials said the harsh winter and damaging winds have created a crisis for the 78-year-old Fletcher Class destroyer and major attraction at the park.

The Abrams tank was a formidable foe for the Iraqis, who were piloting tanks bought from the Soviets that had been used in Iraq's seemingly interminable war with Iran.

Three decades have passed since a devastating Iraqi missile strike on the 14th Quartermaster Detachment that changed the lives of 43 members of the Army Reserve water purification unit who were wounded, and the families of 13 soldiers who died in the attack.

There will no longer be a Memorial Day parade in Streetsboro, Ohio, after the city's American Legion Post expressed concern about the message it portrays.

A re-enactment of a post-World War II act of kindness by American pilots for destitute German children could return to Virginia's Dare County by summer’s end.

A platoon of University of Kentucky ROTC cadets raised the American flag over a campus lawn on Tuesday in honor of Elwood "Woody" Hughes and Franklin Sousley, a Kentucky native who was one of the Marines shown raising the flag over Mt. Suribachi in the iconic 1945 photo.

MacDill’s marker is part an ongoing effort throughout the Tampa Bay area to memorialize Black cemeteries that were erased as historic Black communities were redeveloped during the early- through mid-20th century.

The Ford-class carrier Doris Miller will be the first carrier named for Black American, and also the first named for an enlisted sailor.

The discovery comes as the academy and the Buffalo Soldiers Association of West Point prepare for the installation this year of a new equestrian monument on campus to honor the crucial, but little known, role of the Buffalo Soldiers there.

The E-8C Joint STARS aviators made history Friday when the first all-African American flight crew launched on a training mission at Robins Air Force Base.

"Futures" is a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary exhibition that will blend art, science, design, history and technology in a celebration of the world's largest museum complex.

For more than a century, the little that has been known of Mary Louveste has been just enough to tantalize: She got her hands on details of the Confederates’ armored ship and smuggled them to Washington. The picture of Mary Louveste is finally getting clearer.

Several restored military aircraft are slated to land at Terre Haute Regional Airport in 2021.

Visitors will get to watch real World War II tanks and historic military vehicles partake in mock battles — complete with ground-shaking artillery fire — to show off America's military might from skirmishes long past.

When Stephen Hayes set out to honor the United States Colored Troops who fought against so many odds in the Civil War, it was about remembering the faces of the men history has too often forgotten.

Documents provide precise details for the first time of the Soviet military response to a 1983 NATO exercise.

On what would have been Sgt. 1st Class William M. Bryant's 88th birthday, his family gathered Tuesday at the Fort Bragg building that bears his name to donate his Medal of Honor for a display there.

A $20 million, 12,000-square-foot USS Bowfin submarine museum opened Monday with a new name and striking look that charts the course of Navy undersea duty, from the loss of the USS F-4's 21 hands off Honolulu in 1915 up through the newest $6.5 billion Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.

The Black World War II fighter pilots who completed 15,000 sorties in 1,500 missions throughout the Mediterranean, and even sank an enemy destroyer, have joined Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver on commemorative U.S. currency.

Colt Holding Co. has been purchased by a Czech firearms company, ending a 175-year run as an American company and helping to establish a “small arms powerhouse,” the two companies announced Friday.

The commission to rename military bases honoring Confederate leaders will include three retired generals, a retired admiral, a former drill sergeant, a civilian defense policy expert, a congressman and the secretary of the Smithsonian, Pentagon and congressional leaders announced Friday.

The memorial would feature the sail and rudder of the USS Groton and would honor the people of Electric Boat who designed and built submarines, sailors who served on the boats and Groton, Conn., as the "submarine capital of the world."

Fort Chaffee, Ark., which was used as a test site for the defoliate Agent Orange during the war, processed 50,809 Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian and Hmong refugees from 1975-1976.

Under the cover of night on June 1, 1863, Harriet Tubman led Union troops from the Sea Islands up South Carolina's Combahee River, with a plan to destroy bridges, raid Confederate outposts and rice plantations, cutting off supply lines to Confederate troops.

America really is the land of opportunity, a country where if you don't grow up to be president, you can at least make a living pretending to be one.

Gen. William “Joe” Potter helped turn a swampy Florida wetland into the Magic Kingdom. He was the architect of Disney World’s government, the mastermind behind the hidden tunnel system at the park, and the reason why Disney has no mosquito problem today.

They were a small, tight-knit crew of Army Transportation Corps soldiers who came to Vietnam to run a combination barge and truck but who took on the dangerous work of patrolling harbors and rivers — and now, Fort Eustis’ museum has one of their boats to make sure nobody forgets their hazardous service.

George Clooney played him in "The Monuments Men" feature film in 2014, but his name was changed to Frank Stokes, so George Stout's name continues to fly under the radar. His actions, however, continue to change and preserve history.

A 91-year-old veteran was reunited with his long-lost billfold, which was found behind a locker during the demolition of a building at McMurdo Station, the southernmost town on Earth.

They called themselves the “Black Rattlers” and the French dubbed them “Men of Bronze,” but the Army now officially recognizes a historic Harlem unit by what the enemy called them in World War I — the “Hellfighters.”

By the end of 2020, the backlog at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Mo. where 60 million paper records of veterans are stored, had grown to an estimated 445,000 requests, according to Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.

William Benjamin Gould didn't just seek refuge with the Union Navy boats just outside the reach of the Confederacy. He and several of the other men he fled with joined the Navy, and he almost immediately began keeping a diary of his experience.

Arthur T. Carter, whose grandfather fought for the Union’s Colored Troops, is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument that honors African American and white Union soldiers in Eastville's historic square.

It was 1921, and America was emerging from a dark time – a pandemic and a war. Enter Laddie Boy, a handsome Airedale terrier who was part of President Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy" campaign messaging.

The 434th Air Refueling Wing is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the long road that ultimately led it to employing 1,600 military and civilian workers.

Vietnam, one of the world's five remaining Communist states, is about to get new leadership.

Castle Air Museum in Atwater, Calif., recently announced a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Aircraft is expected to arrive in June, and will be put on display.

Bullets ricocheted off trees and gunfire echoed through the forests. It was the winter of 1945, as Harold Radish, a Jewish teen from Brooklyn, New York, made his way through the Luxembourg forests along the Siegfried Line with the 90th Infantry Division.

It is hard to know exactly how many Jews Japanese diplomat Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara saved during World War II, but some estimate it could be as many as 6,000.

World War II bomber pilot Gerald "Jerry" Solheid of San Diego marked his 103rd birthday with his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Seventy-five years ago, Lee Weiss played a leading role in shifting World War II to the Allies' favor — but Weiss, who turned 100 years young on Dec. 24, didn't know it until decades later.

After eight decades, the Fort Lee Traveller is riding off into the sunset, but base officials say that should not be seen as an obituary for news and information delivery from the installation.

As the last known survivor of Pearl Harbor residing in Lackawanna County, Walter Pasiak taught younger generations about service and sacrifice.

Thousands of people working at the former Pease Air Force Base, along with children and infants who attended two day cares there, were exposed to multiple PFAS chemicals from contaminated water in the city-owned Haven well until its closure in 2014.

Animal Protection of New Mexico and the Humane Society of the United States filed a federal lawsuit Jan. 14 against the National Institutes of Health about a group of chimpanzees residing on Holloman Air Force Base.

Abrahan Lincoln, who guided the nation through the Civil War, received an extraordinary number of shout-outs during Wednesday's inauguration.

Since presidential inaugurations moved from March to January in 1937, none have stirred up as much weather drama as John F. Kennedy's in 1961, when a surprise snowstorm the day before brought Washington to a standstill.

Witness to triumph and tragedy, the hallowed band has a healing role in the Biden inauguration.

Antonio Prohías, born 100 years ago this week, arrived in New York in May of 1960 with just $5 in his pocket, pressured to leave Cuba after Fidel Castro accused him of being a CIA agent.

More than 76 years ago, a Mercer County, W. Va., man made the ultimate sacrifice for his country when a major military operation dropped thousands of Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines in war-torn Europe.

The last U.S. Navy vessel named for the city of Pittsburgh, a submarine, retired in 2019 after 35 years at sea, but over the weekend the Navy announced that a new ship will bear the city's name.

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Three decades ago, Kirby Lee Vaughn prepared to cross into Iraq as part of Operation Desert Storm. The Army sergeant had brought his Canon T-70 camera into the desert to capture the experiences of his unit.

When the Smithsonian introduced a futuristic plan for the 17 acres around its iconic administration building, the National Historic Landmark known as the Castle, officials predicted it would be a game-changer that would remake the structure into a visitor gateway to the storied institution.

A new federal law requires West Point to rename structures and roads honoring Confederate generals, including a cadet dormitory that for 50 years has borne the name of the rebel commander Robert E. Lee.

The Rev. Thomas Conway, the heroic chaplain of the ill-fated USS Indianapolis, was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously on Friday for his selfless courage.

Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize for his book "A Bright Shining Lie," a meticulously researched indictment of America's role in that conflict, died Jan. 7 at his home in Washington. He was 84.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is urging Americans to share photos, videos and written stories of 2020 – a historic year that the institution assumes will be of interest to future historians and researchers.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently conducted an "honorable carry" ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for about 40 sets of "unknown" World War II U.S. remains that were returned from the Philippines for identification.

The nonfiction work alternates between the letters and the present as Loretto Thompson visits the various places her father was stationed both in the U.S. and the United Kingdom during the war.

As the most tumultuous year of many of our lives comes to an end and she reflects on her life at the eve of her 100th birthday, Jean Mitoma spoke about her time at the Japanese Internment camps during World War II.

The decision to place a new memorial to Native American veterans outdoors, instead of inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian as originally planned, appears not only inspired, but well executed.

Fred Risser, 93, was elected to Wisconsin's state Senate in 1962 after six years in the Assembly. He is the last World War II veteran to serve in the state or nation's legislatures.

Army recruit Jerome J. Garcia’s staunch resistance to the strictures of military life six decades ago got him discharged just months into his enlistment. Five years later, he founded the Grateful Dead.

Rishi Sharma created a nonprofit called Heroes of the Second World War for his project, and has interviewed about 1,100 veterans over the past four years in 45 states, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

A historic ferry that shuttled commuters across the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland closed Monday after a legal dispute.

The soldier is thought to have been a member of one of the Civil War's first Black regiments, an iconic infantry whose hard-fought loss near Charleston, S.C., was depicted in the Oscar-winning 1989 film "Glory."

During the second wave of Spanish influenza in December 1918 and January 1919, San Franciscans were weary after an autumn of restrictions that were tougher than in most other cities — though they did appear to help reduce cases and deaths.

Charles Schulz, the cartoonist behind “Peanuts,” took part in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and the occupation of Munich. His Combat Infantryman Badge would remain one of his proudest possessions.

Confederate symbols immortalized in bronze at National Park Service sites dodged a bullet this week. The final version of the fiscal 2021 spending package excluded language pushed by House Democrats that would remove the monuments from those sites.

Robert E. Lee's 700-pound likeness left the grandeur of the U.S. Capitol and landed here Tuesday morning as workers rolled the statue off a truck and left it supine, on a wooden pallet, in storage space at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.

The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Va. honors the personal doctor to Stonewall Jackson, one of the most famous Confederate generals of the Civil War.

The 5,500-page spending and relief bill that Congress passed Monday night includes the authorization of two Smithsonian museums — one focused on the American Latino, the other on American women — that pave the way for the world's largest museum complex to become even more diverse.

The question of what should happen to a medal when the veteran who received it has died draws impassioned responses and was part of the Stolen Valor Act in 2006.

While the populations most vulnerable to the coronavirus skew older, poliomyelitis was largely identified as a children’s disease.

Janine de Greef was believed to be among the last surviving members of the "Comet Line," the clandestine Belgian resistance network founded in 1941 by 24-year-old Belgian nurse Andrée "Dédée" de Jongh, to spirit allied airmen through Nazi lines to safety in Spain and eventually to Britain.

For decades, the area was covered with asphalt, railroad tracks and warehouses as part of an Army base. But now a new project is transforming the landscape back to wetlands, creeks and trails for birds, fish, crabs and other wildlife — and for outdoor lovers.

With no Pearl Harbor veterans present in the audience, speakers focused more broadly on the role of World War II veterans and on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war.

When a a U.S. military plane crash-landed on a glacier in 1946, the Americans were asked to leave the plane where it was and allow it to be enveloped by the ice. A scientist thinks it will reemerge sooner than previously expected.

On Dec. 7, 1941, Edward John Socha was standing on the USS Maryland flag bridge battle station in Pearl Harbor as the USS Oklahoma, moored next to his ship, took several Japanese torpedoes to its hull and sank.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website's Wall of Faces had only an extremely blurry photograph of the late Army Spec. 4 Ralph Burkhalter, Jr. Vietnam veteran Bobby Bazzell took on the task of finding a better one.

The U.S. Navy's first patrol craft hydrofoil was launched in 1962 and deactivated in 1985. The USS High Point is no longer seaworthy, but that may be about to change if Neil Beach gets his way.