The highly anticipated march was expected to draw more than 10,000 participants this year but was canceled after New Mexico's governor declared a public health emergency over the arrival of the COVID-19 virus on Wednesday.

In 2020, as sports officials here and elsewhere struggle to deal with the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, the influenza epidemic of a century ago might offer some clues. During that fall and winter, the flu killed an estimated 50 million worldwide, 675,000 in the United States.

The Navy’s investigation into the 1963 sinking of the USS Thresher resulted in a 1,700-page report; only 19 pages have been publicly released. Capt. Jim Bryant, a submarine skipper retired in Point Loma, wants the public to see the other 1,681 pages.

The 31st annual Bataan Memorial Death March around the desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico is still on for this Sunday, even as fears over COVID-19 have caused other mass gatherings to be canceled.

U.S. spy agencies were on the verge of an espionage breakthrough, closing in on the clandestine purchase of a Swiss company that could give American intelligence the ability to crack much of the world's encrypted communications. But the deal fell apart, done in by one of many behind-the-scenes battles between the CIA and the National Security Agency.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Thursday accused Land Commissioner George P. Bush of mismanaging state efforts to restore the Alamo. Patrick said in a written statement that the project in downtown San Antonio “is badly off track.”

Though the Civil War is remembered for its battlefield bloodshed and carnage, more soldiers died from typhoid fever and other infectious diseases than in battle.

NASA legend and native son Fred Haise will be honored in Biloxi, Miss., with a two-day celebration commemorating his flight aboard Apollo 13 in April 1970.

Visitors to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday were treated to an impressive new addition to the museum's all-star lineup: The Columbia command module, in which Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins went to the moon in 1969.

For a year and a half, as much as 14 feet of murky river water filled the hull of the 312-foot long, 250-ton USS Ling after vandals flooded the boat. The water filled every corner and crevice of the submarine’s innards, damaging radio and electronic equipment.

One of the last surviving veterans of the infamous Bataan Death March has died, and his passing is a reminder that time makes no allowances — not even for one of the most important moments in recent history.

The Battle of Forks Road was a small, but pivotal, skirmish on Feb. 20 and 21, 1865, on the site that is now home to the Cameron Art Museum. More importantly, the Union's charge at the battle, which delivered the final blow to Wilmington's defenses, was primarily led by 1,600 U.S. Colored Troops.

An 8-ton Dahlgren gun has sat in a chemical bath at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News for several years. For the 140 years before that, it sat on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 17 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. And before that, it was in the rotating turret of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators have signed on to a bipartisan letter urging Defense Secretary Mark Esper to add the names of the 74 American sailors who died aboard the USS Frank E. Evans in 1969 to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

Gov. Mike DeWine has honored Col. Guion Bluford, who became an Air Force fighter pilot and the first black man to go to space, with the Ohio Distinguished Service Medal.

Frank Anderson, a former American spymaster who supervised clandestine CIA operations in the Middle East, including a smuggling initiative that supplied Afghan rebels with billions of dollars in weapons during their 1980s war against the Soviet Union, died Jan. 27.

To conserve steel during World War I, Mobile, Alabama, shipbuilders turned to an unlikely building material: concrete. On June 28, 1919, the first concrete-hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was launched and prepared to aid Allied forces.

The nation's top military officer paid tribute Wednesday to thousands of U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen who took part in what he called "the bloodiest campaign in American history, per square mile," the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Pitman Sr., who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that claimed seven lives in 1973, died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Planning for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II has taken a major step forward with authorization for the military to transport up to 24 World War II-era aircraft and their pilots to and from Pearl Harbor for the commemoration.

As a intelligence officer for his Marine battalion on Iwo Jima, Warren Musch traveled from command post to command post, making him a moving target.

On Sunday, Ken Potts and shipmate Lou Conter somberly talked by phone about the latest USS Arizona crewman to pass away. With the death of Don Stratton on Saturday, the 98-year-olds became the only two remaining survivors of the ship that was lost in the December, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

When the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, women suddenly took on pivotal roles supporting America’s war effort, whether working on factory floors, manning USO centers or joining the armed services.

When Thomas Downing died in 1866, the New York Chamber of Commerce closed, something it simply doesn’t do on a weekday. Its members, among them the most prosperous merchants in Manhattan, had decided they’d rather go to Downing’s funeral.

On at least one occasion during World War II, the U.S. government sided with the Nazis. German prisoners of war assigned as cooks at a MacDill Air Force Base hospital in early 1945 threatened to quit working unless injured black soldiers were moved to a separate mess hall.

For 77 years, Fort Ord near Monterey was a sprawling Army base thick with artillery pieces, wooden barracks and infantrymen taking target practice with rifles and machine guns. More than 2 million men and women served there between 1917 and 1994.

As Russia prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up his defense of Josef Stalin and digging in against calls to open up secret archives on the Soviet state's killing of millions of its own citizens.

One of the most beloved figures in San Diego Padres history spent only one season in the dugout — managing the 1980 team to a 73-89 record — and never played an inning for the team. Yet Jerry Coleman easily is the most heroic figure the franchise has ever known.

He's 95 now, and many of his Army comrades are gone. That makes retired Cpl. James W. Baldwin one of the last living black liberators, the African American soldiers who rolled into Holland in 1945 to fight the Nazis and helped free the Dutch from German occupation.

A decade of political transformation in his Pennsylvania district and partisan divide on the national level has occurred since the death of U.S. Rep. John “Jack” Murtha on Feb. 8, 2010.

After a torpedo hit the USAT Dorchester on Jan. 23, 1943, and it became clear that the ship was sinking, the chaplains tried to calm the men and organize an orderly evacuation. As life jackets were passed out, the supply ran out. The chaplains removed their own life jackets and gave them to others.

In 1951, Walter B. Dixon's family received the news that the 22-year-old had been killed in action in Korea. President Harry Truman sent a letter of condolence, and his wife eventually remarried. But there was just one catch: Dixon wasn't actually dead, he was a prisoner of war.

Pfc. Edward A. Nalazek had been buried in a trench with other Marines on Betio Island, where he fell. But the cemetery’s location was lost to history, and in 1949 the family was told that Nalazek’s remains could not be recovered. That changed last year.

The 1971 Sylmar earthquake killed 58 people. Forty-nine of them died at the Sylmar VA. Witnesses later told members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs that two hospital buildings collapsed "in a cloud of dust" while the ground was still shaking.

U.S. Navy Fireman First Class Rex E. Wise is expected to be buried near his home in April, nearly right decades after he died in the Japanese attack on his ship, the USS Oklahoma, at Pearl Harbor.

The opening exhibit of Chattanooga's Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center will feature a large collection of medals and the stories of their recipients, according to organizers of the museum's launch, which is set for Feb. 22.

A traveling exhibit at the Riley County Historical Museum is helping shed light on the role and lives of African American soldiers at Fort Riley in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

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Retired Gen. Erneido Oliva, who was second in command during the Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro and fought alongside fellow brigade members, died Thursday in Maryland. Oliva passed away following an illness. He was 87.

The collection contains several, gawk-worthy stops – rare items from England, the U.S. National Archives, Library of Congress and art commissioned by MacArthur “genius” grant-winner Titus Kaphar.

When relatives learned that the remains of Korean War veteran Army Cpl. Arthur Contreras Ramirez were found, a roller coaster of emotions broke loose.

The exhibit, titled, "So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope," was created in 2018 and displayed at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Columbus is the start of a planned six-city tour.

Engines roared as the B-17 Flying Fortress steadily lifted off the runway. When he got the go-ahead, 94-year-old veteran Alfred Colbath walked through the narrow walkway in the bomb bay to get to the cockpit. Colbath then crawled into the nose for an unrivaled view of Lake County.

The Philippine Navy retired BRP Rizal, which began life in 1944 and was commissioned as the USS Murrelet.

Hundreds of photos of the notorious Sobibor death camp and other key sites in the Nazi extermination machine were stashed for decades in albums belonging to the camp's deputy commandant and in the attic and cupboards of the family home.

At age 23 in the spring of 1945, Guy Prestia was in the Army and fighting his way across southern Germany when his unit walked into hell on earth — the Nazi death camp at Dachau.

The real Battle of Rio San Gabriel, a pivotal battle for control of California in the two-year U.S.-Mexican War, ended on Jan. 8, 1847, with an American victory.

Sometime in the mid-1980s, someone made their way into the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, Italy, and walked out with a 500-year old Latin copy of the first letter Christopher Columbus wrote to Ferdinand, King of Spain, describing the wonders he beheld in the Americas. This week, U.S. officials announced that the letter, which bears an estimated market value of $1.3 million, had been recovered.

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Turkey is in the ascendancy and Libya a divided, war-ravaged shell. Yet ties are being rekindled, inflaming a region that's still nursing the wound from the defining events of almost a half century ago.

For many years, visitors to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. were able to view the front section of one of the U.S. military's most durable combat aircraft, the Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder "Flak-Bait." Now the entire plane is being restored and readied for display.

Stepping inside the B-17 Flying Fortress, many would think they are being transported back in time as airmen who battled in the skies. The Liberty Foundation's nationwide "Salute to Veterans Tour" will give civilians that chance.

After resting at the bottom of the ocean for more than a century, the rust-covered device that relayed messages from the sinking RMS Titanic could be recovered.

On a recent Saturday, a 500-pound statue of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was lowered into place before a scene from D-Day carved in limestone. The memorial is scheduled to be dedicated on May 8, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.

Located down a winding wooded path in Sandwich, Mass., a lonely gravesite sits within a fenced-in area covered in American flags. Inside, a penny sits atop the moss-covered stone that marks the grave of Joseph Wilson.

Little did anyone know, but the Purple Heart medal of Pvt. Richard Earl Gregor had not reached the end of its journey last year when it was presented to the Marion County Historical Museum in Fairmont, W. Va.

An auction in New Jersey recently featured a table said to have been used for the planning of the Normandy invasion. But at the Eisenhower Presidential Museum, there is a table passed down through Dwight D. Eisenhower himself which was used for confidential delegations before D-Day.

An overlooked Civil War veteran needed to be recognized, so a mission was launched to honor Abraham "Abie" Jenkins, who entered the war in 1861.

Four hundred men were housed at Fort Gaines at its peak and those men would need facilities in quiet times and during attacks. After all, fighting for one’s life does not preclude nature’s call.

A ceremony at the National World War II Memorial Thursday morning marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Luzon, an invasion whose goal was to free the Philippines' largest island from Japanese control.

Analysis

The vice president's story about his advice on a pivotal moment in Obama's presidency keeps evolving.

Retired Gen. Dennis Reimer, former chief of staff of the United States Army, capped off a career of more than six decades on Dec. 31, 2019, with his retirement from Army Emergency Relief.

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, a quirky and fascinating repository of battlefield medical artifacts including skull saws and rusty scalpels, is amputating the Confederate flag from its logo. And naturally, the Internet has opinions.

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung" is the term German government officials use to describe German diplomat Ruprecht Polenz's mission. It means "to overcome the past." At issue is what happened between 1904 and 1908, when German colonial troops killed an estimated 80,000 people in southwest Africa, in what is now Namibia.

Ulysses S. Grant has been reconsidered by historians in recent years, rising 11 spots — to No. 22 — in the C-SPAN historians poll between 2000 and 2017. Major, sympathetic biographies of Grant have been published by H.W. Brands, Ron Chernow and Ronald C. White since 2012.

The nonprofit Naval Air Museum Barbers Point, which maintains that it is being wrongfully evicted by state airport officials over a convoluted contract history, has filed a lawsuit claiming it has an “implied agreement” with the state to occupy certain space at what is now known as Kalaeloa Airport.

Jim Kelly spent almost three years as an aircraft mechanic at Marana airfield in Arizona before he found out who he was really working for: The CIA.

Pfc. Roger W. Taylor left his family's farm 75 years ago for deployment to Europe during World War II, and never came home. But the dog tags he wore during his 22 months of Army service finally finished their journey back to his home town.

Analysis

It was a bad year to be any kind of socialist in Europe. The decline has been long and agonizing for a once-dominant force, but in 2019 falling popularity reached new depths and raised questions over whether reinvention can lead to a revival.

On Dec. 21, 1944, Robert Potach celebrated his 21st birthday in a foxhole outside the Belgian town of Bastogne. It was several days after the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. Potach celebrated his 96th birthday last week.

It was just after 8 a.m. on Christmas morning, 1944, outside the village of Echternach, Luxembourg, when a bullet from a Nazi machine gun found its way into Lt. James P. Teehan’s helmet.

The news broke most places on Christmas Day 1944, crammed onto front pages amid the blaring war headlines: Glenn Miller was missing.

We dipped into our archives for some of our memorable holiday photos through the years.

Seventy-five years ago this week, the biggest and most deadly single battle of World War II for American soldiers climaxed during what became known as the Battle of the Bulge.

Important matters of international security aren’t usually what sitting presidents discuss with 8-year-old girls. But on a fall day in 1961, John Kennedy felt compelled to do just that after receiving a letter written in pencil.

As a combat veteran and a retired, award-winning TV news and sports camera operator, George Larsen told good stories. An old one recounted how he first thought it was an earthquake that rattled him awake in Hawaii on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.

Thousands of years ago, long before modern industry began to heat the planet, rising seas threatened a community on the coast of Israel. The villagers needed to defend their home, so they built a wall. It failed. People abandoned the village. The Mediterranean sea swept inland and drowned the buildings.

Visitors to Home of the Brave Hawaii can hop aboard a 1945 Ford Jeep featured in the 2001 movie “Pearl Harbor,” grab a vintage bottle of Coca-Cola and flip through a scrapbook of the USS Saratoga featuring personal letters from a World War II sailor.

For years, not even her family knew the pivotal role Mitsuye Endo played in the only successful Supreme Court challenge to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The only World War II veteran who ended up participating in Monday's Battle of the Bulge 75th Anniversary commemoration, 95-year-old George Arnstein, took a taxi to the National World War II Memorial, then braved the rain and cold wind.

Roger Taylor died on Jan. 6, 1945, while attacking high ground east of Lutrebois in Belgium as a member of the 134th Infantry Regiment.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper and European leaders gathered Monday at the Luxembourg American Cemetery to honor those killed in the Battle of the Bulge, and to thank veterans on hand to mark the 75th anniversary of the pivotal battle.

American and Belgian flags flew side-by-side Saturday in commemoration of U.S. soldiers who fought 75 years ago in the six-week Battle of the Bulge, a victory that thwarted the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II.

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Wreaths Across America came to the U.S. Naval Academy cemetery a day early on Friday, as volunteers placed more than 2.500 wreaths at the final resting places of sailors and Marines of all ranks.

Minority World War I veterans whose actions during the war were overlooked because of their race or religion could have their service records reviewed to determine whether some of them deserve the Medal of Honor.

A newly-opened exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture chronicles the black experience before, during and after World War I, and tells how the war opened a new front in the struggle for equality that echoes to today.