It is a day set aside nationally to recognize those who were held captive, forced into separation from everyone and everything they loved, and tortured and mistreated at the hands of the enemy.

The cleanup problems at Michoud, which have now lingered more than a half century, reflect how unsafe manufacturing practices were until Congress in the late 1970s and early 1980s adopted a suite of laws restricting the use and disposal of toxic chemicals.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is gearing up to turn its spotlight to a different plane each month in a new way.

After having its 2020 tour cut short in August due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's Wall That Heals will return to the road April 8 in New Bern, N.C.

The U.S. Postal Service on June 3 will unveil a postage stamp honoring nisei soldiers from Hawaii and the mainland who served in the U.S. military during World War II.

It began with a single watchman hired to safeguard the new Capitol building in the country's new capital in 1800. John Golding was the first member of what eventually became the U.S. Capitol Police, a force that grew to 2,300 officers over the course of the next two centuries.

Honor Flight Syracuse threw Central New York trailblazer Margaret “Peg” Bandy quite the 100th birthday celebration.

Thanks to a knock on the door in March 1902, there's a legal precedent to guide policymakers and the courts on how far businesses and government can go to ensure safety.

The St. Marys Submarine Museum opened 25 years ago, but the idea for a repository of artifacts from the Navy's silent service began years earlier.

On March 29, 1973, combat and combat support units withdrew from South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 permanently designates that date every year as National Vietnam War Veterans Day.

For the first time ever, veterans gathered just after sunrise Monday morning at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park to observe National Vietnam War Veterans Day.

David Cornell served on four submarines between 1956 and 1966, a "cold warrior" with many a tale to tell. But it's the story about the boat he almost served on and the buddy who drew the assignment instead that haunts him.

The film details how the crime against Isaac Woodard led to the racial awakenings of South Carolina Judge J. Waties Waring and President Harry S. Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later.

Where once the ships were packed in along the edge of Sinclair Inlet at Naval Base Kitsap, the fleet consists now of a half-dozen surface ships, 11 nuclear-powered submarines and one cruiser.

Minoru Yasui first came to public attention on March 28, 1942, when he decided to step out into the streets after dark. The 26-year-old law-school graduate knew that a curfew for Japanese-Americans was unconstitutional, and he was determined to create a test case in court.

Under the new bill, veterans would need to prove only that they deployed to parts of the Middle East, southwest Asia and Africa since 1990 and suffer from a condition associated with toxic exposure.

Recipients of the nation's highest military honor marked National Medal of Honor Day on Thursday with ceremonies curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, but a traditional continued with the announcement of the annual Citizen Honors Award recipients.

Federal investigators have concluded pilot error and inadequate engine maintenance led to the fiery 2019 crash of a WWII B-17G bomber plane at Bradley International Airport that killed seven and injured seven more.

As part of its project to restore its B-25 bomber to how it looked during World War II, the Yankee Air Museum is honoring the women who powered the Arsenal of Democracy by renaming the aircraft "Rosie's Reply."

A bomb squad on Monday safely disposed of an unexploded Civil War-era cannonball a Jefferson resident received from a relative who recently found it near the Monocacy Battlefield, according to fire officials.

Archeologists have found the outlines of a palisaded fort that was erected in Southern Maryland by White settlers in 1634.

President John F. Kennedy’s Cold War-era bunker and a former Coast Guard station on Peanut Island will be operated by Palm Beach County, the Port of Palm Beach commission has indicated.

Sgt. Maj. Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, a fixture of the Fort Bragg community, was an original member of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment and served during World War II. He died March 10 at the age of 97.

James Darren Scott, 53, was arrested after an investigation led to charges of cutting and removing the trees in September 2020, according to the National Park Service. The loss and damage caused by Scott's theft totals almost $60,000, officials said.

Tennessee's two U.S. senators and nine congressmen are urging President Joe Biden to accord a state funeral to the nation's last remaining World War II Medal of Honor recipient when the time comes.

It's been 72 years since Shimer Bruce Berkey, 89, left Richland High School to serve in the U.S. Army in 1949. But Wednesday, he finally received his diploma.

For 82 years, Marylanders have listened to a state song that is a bloody call to arms in support of the Confederacy. Now, the tune is likely to lose its honored status.

With only two weeks of operations remaining, members of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum Foundation are asking the Marine Corps to reconsider the decision to permanently close the museum.

Local Confederacy nonprofits and a Civil War battleground in the Shenandoah Valley are vying for the opportunity to take the monument off the city’s hands, but the council isn’t impressed with either option.

A soil sample taken during "Project Iceworm," a failed 1960s effort to hide nuclear missiles beneath Greenland's ice, reveals new info on Greenland's ice sheet.

Robert L. Moore, who served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars and was the last surviving Montford Point Marine in San Diego County, died Feb. 25 following a weeklong hospitalization for COVID-19.

A past commander of the American Legion Minneapolis Post blames a couple of rogue members for making off with a ship's bell and wheel that ended up in Minnetonka High School, while the schools superintendent say they'll only take orders from the U.S. Navy to give them back.

A new granite Wall of Remembrance at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will include the names of 36,574 Americans and more than 7,200 Koreans who served as advisers and interpreters.

Decades after retired Command Sgt. Maj. Kenneth "Rock" Merritt jumped into World War II conflicts and retired as the 18th Airborne Corps' top enlisted senior adviser, Merritt's presence was still known around Fort Bragg.

The speech, delivered 75 years ago, became best known for the phrase "Iron Curtain" that Churchill used to describe the figurative wall that divided the Soviets' area of influence with the rest of Europe, and is considered perhaps to be the biggest eye-opener to the Cold War.

The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Robert E. Simanek is scheduled to be launched in 2024, according to Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite.

With the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America celebrating its 125th anniversary on March 15, South Florida members of the organization explained what serving in the military has meant to them.

Women have played integral roles in Air Force history even before there was an Air Force, and a new exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force brings new attention to that dimension of military history.

On March 27, 2011, 16 days after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and others transported supplies by sea, and on April 1, they landed on the island, where they spent about a week setting up showers and removing debris with heavy machinery.

Soldiers are mourning the closure of a popular veteran-owned pub near an Army base in Tennessee, after fire ravaged much of the building.

The Buffalo and Erie County Military and Naval Park has exceeded its goal to raise $100,000 for emergency hull repairs for USS The Sullivans, but there is more work to be done.

Like many young people of his generation, David Russell Tyson answered the call to serve his country during World War II when he was still a high school junior.

John B. Williams, who may have been the last surviving World War II Buffalo Soldier in Ohio, died on Friday at the age of 98.

Julia Parsons worked on one of the first computers to decode German U-boat message traffic sent via the Enigma machine. But "we never talked about it," she said. "Because you never knew who was listening. Also, no one asked me."

For Jennifer Reichert, preserving Arnold Massier's home is her way of preserving the legacy of a war hero and friend.

Whether assigned to primitive villages in Africa in the 1980s, emerging democracies in Eastern Europe in the 1990s, or more recently to South America, they all joined the Peace Corps out of a desire to serve their country and to help people in need, using skills they already had or acquired in college.

The names and stories of 11 soldiers who were part of the 3rd Special Forces Group were remembered at Fort Bragg on Friday, between the flutter kicks, air squats and pushups of Physical training.

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.