During World War II, the 101st Airborne Division used playing card symbols on their helmets to identify units and aid regrouping during the chaotic night parachute landings of D-Day. From the spades ...
Mercury Aircraft, Corning Glass Works and Gunlocke were among the businesses that boomed in Steuben County during wartime.
Long before his North African campaigns, Erwin Rommel built his reputation during WW1 as an aggressive stormtrooper officer. On the Italian Front, he led daring infiltration assaults that exploited ...
This stray dog lifted spirits in the trenches, offering companionship and emotional support long before therapy dogs became common.
A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.
During Black History Month, revisit the overlooked story of Black US soldiers in WWI—their service overseas and the unequal ...
For most of the 369th’s Black members, it would take years, even decades, to receive American military honors.
On a winter evening inside St. Charles Church, weathered books, fading photographs, handwritten journals, military artifacts and fragile documents told stories far larger than their physical size. The ...
Israel has destroyed the graves of World War One and World War Two soldiers in Gaza. And as critics have highlighted, UK right-wingers would have had a very different response to this desecration if ...
Nearly two dozen graves of Kiwi soldiers who died in World War I and World War II have been destroyed at a Gaza cemetery in what is being labelled as “systematic” destruction of the sacred ground.
This picture taken from a position on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, shows the sun setting behind destroyed buildings as Israeli bulldozers work amid a ceasefire between Israel and ...
Nearly two dozen graves of Kiwi soldiers who died in World War I and World War II have been destroyed at a Gaza cemetery in what is being labelled as “systematic” destruction of the sacred ground.