The Cadet Nurse Corps operated from 1943 to 1948, when the country worried about a shortage of nurses. The vast majority of them were women, serving in war hospitals overseas and in civilian hospitals in the U.S. to fill a massive need.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the strike organized by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers that started Sept. 22, 1919, at a time when steelworkers put in 12-hour days six days per week and 24-hour shifts every other week.

A resolution introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley proposed a Forever stamp series to honor women who served in the military, including two Stark County, Ohio, women who were killed in action.

Seven of Nixon's closest confidantes had been indicted in the Watergate scandal, and the special prosecutor investigating the matter wanted audio recordings of some of the president's phone conversations from the Oval Office. Nixon claimed executive privilege protected him, and he refused to release the tapes.

It's D-Day, 1944, and radio correspondent George Hicks is on the deck of the USS Ancon as it comes under attack by Nazi aircraft. For more than 13 riveting minutes, he captures the raw sound of battle. Hicks' original tape was presumed lost, until it was discovered among abandoned belongings in an old cabin on Long Island.

Monday's was the first of five hearings to be held across the state to gather opinions on what changes, if any, should be made to the name of Historic Fort Snelling following a $34.5 million restoration project at the site.

Two World War II fighter planes and three bombers will be at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut through Thursday. The aircraft are a B-17G Flying Fortress heavy bomber, a B-24J Liberator heavy bomber, a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, a P-51 Mustang fighter and a P-40 Warhawk fighter.

Weeks ago, the mysterious discovery of an unopened letter written in 1967 reinvigorated a metro family’s search for a relative they hadn’t seen in 10 years. Now, the Hayes family says, that story has a happy ending.

The Civil War and slavery are sore subjects for many black people, and changing the name might help tone down the growing opposition to the project, including his own, Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin said.

Crew families, as well as friends, legislators, and current and former Navy officials were gathering Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the men who perished in 1963 when the USS Thresher burst a leak and imploded under the pressure of the ocean as it drifted out of control past its "crush" depth.

On Saturday in Germany, Adolf Hitler’s military uniform, visor hat and several medals will go on the auction block and could sell for upward of $2 million, based on similar sales in recent years.

Harold Pedersen, who passed away Sept. 7 in Helena, Mont., at age 96, celebrated his 22nd birthday the day of the invasion on Feb. 19, 1945.

Karl Muenter, was a sergeant with the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth, which was responsible for the massacre of 86 men in Ascq, France in April 1944, about two months before the Allied D-Day landings.

Marveling at the mammoth World War II warbirds on the tarmac at the Worcester Regional Airport, WWII veteran Herbert Keilson's eyes focused on the fuselage of a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, the type of aircraft on which he once served as a flight engineer.

A child's innocence and his mother's worry were both captured on a video that Mark Tennenbaum made of his family after they boarded the RMS Queen Mary for a transatlantic passage. "The bottom line was that the Queen Mary saved me and my mom and dad, saved our lives," Tennenbaum said.

Sixteen million Americans served in World War II. In the European theater, roughly 94,000 of those soldiers lived out part of their service as a kriegsgefangener, which is German for prisoner of war. Friday is a day to remember them, and those who never came home.

Work begins Saturday on the National Mall to establish a long-sought memorial recognizing the military service of Native Americans – service that many in the United States remain unaware of, according to leaders of the project.

In her message to the many students in the audience, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Olga Custodio impressed upon them the importance of persistence, passion and patience. “I learned that denial is sometimes just delay,” she said about setbacks she’d faced.

Dutch paratroopers jumped onto an old World War II battleground this week to present their country’s highest military award to an American veteran and the son of another who helped liberate the Netherlands from Nazi Germany.

Clarence Smoyer earned the moniker the “Hero of Cologne” as a 21-year-old tank gunner credited with destroying a German Panther IV tank blocking the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division’s march to the Rhine River during WWII.

Harold Kendall Costill, 18, was among more than 100 sailors killed aboard the battleship USS West Virginia when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was listed as missing in action for nearly 80 years.

Retired Bishop Francis X. Roque, former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for Military Services who also served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, Korea and Europe, died Thursday at age 90.

Russian authorities hope to prove that, among Joseph Stalin's victims in Sandarmokh, Soviet soldiers taken captive and shot by the Finnish army during World War II are also buried.

There's still a lot to learn about the Anniversary Wreck, so named because a crew from the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program found it in 2015, the 450th anniversary of the city's founding.

Struggling through Parkinson's disease, dementia and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, Harry Glixon spent the last decade of his life racing the undertaker, pecking away at the keyboards with the two-fingered intensity that characterized his typing skills.

The high-stakes Incheon landing marked a crucial turning point early in the Korean War which, absent a formal peace treaty, is technically still underway. Some military commanders argued it was too risky, but Gen. Douglas MacArthur insisted the riskiness only boosted the element of surprise.

About 20 miles south of Washington, the $400 million National Museum of the U.S. Army will be the service's flagship museum when it opens on June 4.

Opinion

Relations between Japan and South Korea are currently strained due to a dispute over former civilian workers from the Korean Peninsula during World War II. The heart of the problem is whether the promises made between our two sovereign states when they decided to normalize their relations in 1965 will be kept or not.

Analysis

World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and material. After all, the war took more than 60 million lives, redrew the map of Europe and ended with the Soviet Union and the United States locked in a Cold War of nuclear superpowers.

D.J. and Jessica Carson were hoping to discover a small fortune when they purchased contents within a storage unit during a public auction in Canton, Ohio. Inside an old trunk were a Purple Heart and other memorabilia that belonged to Lewis R. Billman, a U.S. Army soldier who died in battle in France on Aug. 21, 1944.

Obituary

Jim Leavelle, a Pearl Harbor veteran and longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history's most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy's assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99.

The tags were the only thing Angela had left of her father, Capt. Steven L. Bennett, who was killed in action in Vietnam when Angela was only 2 years old. Her father was an OV-10 pilot and Medal of Honor recipient.

The museum encompasses three different sites with three different historical focuses, expanding beyond its initial concentration on the convergence of soldiers and medical personnel in Frederick after the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg and Monocacy. Changing the logo — or at least the possibility of it — is a new focus as the museum embarks on a rebranding campaign.

The long wait for the USS Arizona Memorial to reopen to walk-on visits is ending soon, with a new anchoring system drilled firmly into the seafloor to keep a formerly wayward floating access dock in place, officials say.

Jan Ruff-O'Herne, who had grown up on her father's colonial sugar plantation in what was then the Dutch East Indies, was one of the few Europeans used by the Japanese as sex slaves during World War II.

The fort is considered to have been an important British military outpost along Wood Creek during the French and Indian War. France blew up Fort Bull and killed or captured nearly 60 soldiers.

At the same time Ruth Reise's husband enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, she was also offered a job. Her height – 5 foot – made her the perfect size to climb into plane gas tanks to secure the rivets.

Whether it’s through a glove belonging to Stonewall Jackson, a uniform worn by a Union soldier, a complete Civil War ambulance, or any of the other 24,000 artifacts, dioramas and detailed descriptions in the National Civil War Museum’s collection, visitors learn about the conflict from beginning to end.

Archaeological divers from Rhode Island and Australia are gathering in Newport to positively identify the wreck of Capt. James Cook's Endeavour, the ship that took him around the world and from which he discovered Australia.

What was a grand and enjoyable dinner party honoring returning World War I veteran Col. Charles Weybrecht a century ago turned into a deadly tragedy resulting in the deaths of seven people, including the guest of honor.

The cleansing and naming ritual, presided over by visiting chiefs from Cameroon, kicked off a weekend of events marking the 400th anniversary of the Africans' arrival and the dawn of American slavery.

Liane Russell, a refugee of Nazi Europe who became one of the most distinguished female scientists of her era, building a colony of more than 200,000 laboratory mice that she used to demonstrate the importance of protecting developing embryos from X-rays and other forms of radiation, died July 20 at a hospital in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was 95.

A rusty spoon gave high school senior Josh Picoult a portal to World War I and the perilous life of a young soldier. Picoult was among 15 Connecticut students who traveled to France last month to restore trenches that French soldiers dug in 1914 and Connecticut soldiers occupied four years later.

In the photo, a group of straight-faced Japanese prisoners sit, transported by U.S. Army soldiers. At the left, according to Dean Ford, sits Hideki Tojo, Japanese minister of war and later the prime minister during World War II.

Nan Songer, a chemist assistant and naturalist, established a spidery in Yucaipa in 1939 and supplied webs to make crosshairs for equipment such as scopes and sights, including the Norden Bombsight.

In November 1944, Marthe Cohn was recruited by the French Army Intelligence Service to serve as a Nazi spy, a calling that she excelled at, but was not recognized for until decades later. Now, the 99-year-old Holocaust survivor travels around the world with her husband, 93-year-old Major Cohn, sharing her story with anyone who will listen.

As planes from World War II landed, Bob Considine thought of his father, who flew in combat. A P-40 Warhawk, a B-24 bomber and a P-51 Mustang were among the vintage World War II planes that arrived at Hazleton (Pa.) airport as part of the Wings of Freedom tour.

Volunteers continue to clean and polish the USS Arizona Memorial in preparation for the as-yet announced reopening of one of the state’s most visited tourist attractions.

Darr Keirn, Meredith Keirn's brother, had been fighting for years to recover the remains of his brother, and in May 2018, he was told the DNA sample he submitted was an exact match with recently uncovered remains.

Regina Boone's father was only three when his dad, Tsuruju Miyazaki, was taken away. In 2014, before he succumbed to cancer, Raymond Boone asked Regina to sit by him. She took his hand. He then told her: “Find out what happened to my father.”

Raritan Borough is about 4,325 miles away from Italy but a common connection — a World War II hero named John Basilone — now ties the New Jersey town and a small Italian community even closer together.

Operation Dragoon was planned to happen simultaneously with the Normandy invasion, but a shortage of resources — mainly ships — led to the operation being launched Aug. 15, 1944.

VIETNAM AT 50

Vietnam had been Lyndon Johnson’s war, and it destroyed his presidency. Richard Nixon entered the White House on Jan. 20, 1969, anxious to avoid Johnson’s fate.

The valley bottom is dried terraces, each terrace three of four feet higher or lower than the one next to it. Around each of these tiny fields are thick hedgerows. And in the middle of the hedgerows are ditches and bunkers — ditches and bunkers that you just know Charlie is in.

VIETNAM AT 50

Fifty years after leading a company of soldiers up Hamburger Hill, Gerald “Bob” Harkins sees the assault against burrowed-in North Vietnamese army forces no differently than he did then.

VIETNAM AT 50

On Aug. 18, 1969, former soldier Jimi Hendrix, resplendent in bright red headband, white fringed shirt and bell-bottom blue jeans, unfurled what has been called the cultural moment of the 1960s when he played an incendiary instrumental version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” for remnants of the crowd at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y.

VIETNAM AT 50

For Cohasset, Mass., 1969 held the worst eight months of the Vietnam War, when 5 of the town’s soldiers were killed in action, including three from the Cohasset High School Class of 1966.

A thief brazenly stole World War II medals and other memorabilia from a floating ship museum, including ripping some items off a uniform on display.

Battling through the dense Burmese jungle during World War II, members of the all-volunteer Army special operations unit known as Merrill’s Marauders engaged the enemy Japanese behind their lines — dealing blows to the Imperial Army and suffering high casualties in the process.

The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour, in its 30th year, includes five rare bomber and fighter aircraft, including the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-51 Mustang.

Organized by the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, the procession is planned as a 36-day, 3,200-mile trek that will retrace as closely as possible the cross-country route a 1919 convoy followed to road-test Army vehicles of that time.

In a forest near the German village of Speyerdorf, about 20 miles southwest of Ludwigshafen and about 350 miles east of Bassingbourn, a research team is carefully sweeping an area with metal detectors and sifting dirt through screens where some 75 years ago Strictly GI crashed.

But for more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, the Twin Cities were protected by a quartet of nuclear missile installations ringing the metro area.

About three years ago the Naval History and Heritage Command asked institute volunteers to conduct a search for lost aircraft in the bay near Patuxent River Naval Air Station. The Navy had begun a systematic search for such planes. One of them was Lt. j.g. David L. Mandt's Bearcat. It disappeared in 1945.

Five vintage World War II aircraft will fly into the MAPS (Military Aviation Preservation Society) Air Museum on Aug. 9 and will be available for tours through Aug. 11.

Seaman 1st Class James Cunningham was among the sailors killed aboard the patrol boat USS Eagle off the coast of Maine on April 23, 1945, when an explosion ripped its hull in half. On Saturday, the Navy awarded the Purple Heart medal to Cunningham’s 85-year-old sister.

More than 100 veterans gathered at the National Museum of American History on Friday to see the unveiling of a 48-star flag that flew on Landing Craft Control 60 during the 1944 D-Day assault on Utah Beach in Normandy.

U.S. Army Cpl. Charles Stanley Lawler’s burial will close an excruciating chapter for his family. His mother always held out hope that he had been captured and not killed or missing.

Around the clock for weeks after the battle of Gettysberg, medical personnel cared for the wounded, performing amputations, dealing with infections and, in many cases, providing comfort for the dying in their final minutes.

By the time Apollo 11 blasted off, many astronauts had come to develop an appreciation for lunar geology — and the new light it would shed on our own planet.

Fifty years ago Thursday, a car driven by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy plunged off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick, killing Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, a former aide and campaign worker for his late brother Robert F. Kennedy, and derailing his aspirations to follow another brother, John F. Kennedy, to the White House.

During one of the last and bloodiest battles of World War II, the Battle of Okinawa, Anthony “Tony” Procassini was pinned down with fellow soldiers, praying the Japanese shelling would miss. It did, but not by much.

"Doc," one of the only two World War II Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers still flying, was built in 1944 as one of 1,644 B-29 bombers manufactured in Boeing’s Wichita, Kan., plant and delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps in March 1945 — too near the end of World War II to see combat.

Stephen Reagan isn't from Muskogee, but he wants Ernest Edwin Evans to be more than a distant memory to the people here.

Searching for his roots about 10 years ago, Pat Montoya, a retired U.S. Postal Service postmaster, discovered some fascinating details about his great-grandfather, Juan Domingo Montoya.

Gary George found the original videotapes capturing the Apollo 11 lunar landing at a government surplus auction while working at the NASA Johnson Space Center in 1973, according to Sotheby's. He paid $217.77 for the 1,150 reels of magnetic tape, which include Neil Armstrong's declaration, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

The three men who took the journey to the moon became the faces of the achievement. But it was the men and women who worked in factories and offices across the nation over the better part of a decade that took the moon landing from presidential challenge to tangible reality.

Remembering Ross Perot

A few weeks after Orson Swindle returned home from Hanoi after spending more than six years in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps, he picked up his phone and heard Ross Perot's high-pitched twang. Perot was calling to invite Swindle and fellow former POWs of Son Tay POW Camp to San Francisco.

Veterans' Stories

Brig. Gen. Dennis Sullivan flew three CIA reconnaissance missions as a pilot of the A-12 OXCART in 1967 over North Vietnam and earned the CIA's Intelligence Star of Valor Award in 1968, one of the rarest valor awards awarded by the U.S. government. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in 2011.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday honored the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base as a shining example of how formerly federal land can be repurposed.

The amendment inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act calls on the Secretary of the U.S. Navy to publicly exonerate the "Port Chicago 50" – the group of African-American sailors who refused to go back to the Concord Naval Weapons Station to load and unload dangerous munitions without proper safety training.

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103 veterans from the Chicago area came to Washington, D.C. Wednesday as part of Honor Flight Chicago, a non-profit that brings vets on a whirlwind one-day trip to the nation’s capital to visit the memorials that commemorate the wars they served in.

The Army and Navy are now the only branches of the military with any assets named after symbols of the Confederacy, according to a September 2017 Congressional Research Service report.

Some local funeral directors estimate that there are “hundreds” of veterans whose ashes are being stored – either in funeral homes or on the shelves of family members’ homes – until the new burial ground opens.