A World War II-era ship born along the Napa River and tested in harrowing Navy and Coast Guard missions by the dozens looks to have a better future than the scrap heap.
Somewhere in western Iraq, Sept. 3, 2004: Manchus from 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment are living in a morgue while they wait to move in to their barracks.
The nation paused to remember the more than 3,500 Medal of Honor recipients for National Medal of Honor Day on Monday.
Tokyo, August 1993: NBA Rookie of the Year Shaquille O’Neal is interviewed in front of a huge TV screen displaying the scene during his promotional visit to Tokyo.
Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Paul F. Eshelman Jr. is coming home to Pittsburgh more than 80 years after he was killed in World War II.
Zonnie Gorman grew up hearing her father’s stories about World War II and the work he did on the Pacific front. As she got older she realized his work was not only pivotal to the Allied victory but a testament to the ingenuity and bravery of the Navajo Nation men who were code talkers.
During the Battle of Unsan, Cpl Ray Kirby Lilly’s unit held off the attacking Chinese forces so other units could escape the enemy troops that were threatening to overwhelm them. His unit was overrun and cut off, but they kept fighting until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.
Baghdad, Iraq, June 15, 2008: Soldiers from Troop A, 1st Battalion, 75th Cavalry Regiment talk to a produce vendor during a night patrol.
Eighty years after they used elaborate trickery to deceive enemy armies about the true size and location of American forces, the surviving members of World War II’s Ghost Army soaked up the appreciation of a nation on Thursday as they received the Congressional Gold Medal.
The Battleship New Jersey, the most decorated ship in U.S. Navy history, will leave its home dock in Camden, N.J., Thursday to be dry docked for the first time in over three decades.
Herat, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2018: A woman inspects red stigmas from a purple crocus flower for impurities in one of three saffron processing centers opened by Rumi Spice, a Chicago-based spice company founded by U.S. Army veterans.
Starring Brooks Winfield, a Navy radioman 3rd class, was 22 when he was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Air Force will posthumously award Distinguished Flying Cross medals to two airmen 14 years after they were killed in an CV-22 Osprey crash on April 9, 2010, during a mission near Qalat, Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Cpl. Ray K. Lilly, 18, of Matoaka, W.Va., who went missing in action on Nov. 2, 1950, in the vicinity of Unsan, North Korea, has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday.
Philippe de Gaulle, a longtime French naval commander who carried a family legacy as the eldest child of wartime hero and president Charles de Gaulle, but who described his famous lineage as both an honor and burden, died March 13 in Paris. He was 102.
Early on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers descended on South Vietnam on a search-and-destroy mission that within a few hours left hundreds of infants, children and other civilians dead. A historian contends that the massacre would have likely never happened if not for the ambitious officer who planned the mission and longed for a battalion command.
The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said that it was wrong to compare her job to that of a division commander because she functions purely in a staff position despite the fact that she has roughly 21,000 people under her supervision.
Camp Zama, Japan, February 1971: A portrait of Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, taken during an interview at Zama Hospital during a Far East inspection tour that also included stops in Korea and Vietnam.
Much like President Biden’s plan for a temporary harbor to supply food to starving people in Gaza, the Allies in World War II built the Mulberry harbors after D-Day.