China's missile strategy targets U.S. air bases while America bets on stealth technology. Pacific air dominance no longer ...

Navajo code talkers played a vital role during World War II by using their language to send tactical messages. These men were ...

Canada's military was ill-equipped at the war's outbreak, with a small army and outdated weaponry, but defences were quickly bolstered, and thousands of volunteers signed up for the overseas campaign.

Centenarian Ed Buffman tells of battles while serving on the USS Missouri against the backdrop of thousands honoring veterans ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

Military sacrifice weighed heavily on this World War II combat veteran and his family, his grandson now realizes.

Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film ...

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress captures stories of American life and military service. Learn ...

At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged ...

Although Charles “Chuck” Potchak rarely spoke of his military service, he and his brothers would have been proud to have a ...

At the end of the Second World War, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945. Since then, Aug. 9 ...

Only some 66,000 World War II veterans - out of some 16 million who served - remain with us.Celebrate and honor them while we ...