The movie Fury hides an unbelievable amount of WWII uniform detail in plain sight. From shrimp-net helmet covers to tanker jackets, captured German gear, cut-down overcoats, patched-up field jackets, ...
The gear carried by American soldiers in WWII looks nothing like what their Civil War ancestors hauled into battle — yet some ...
On Dec. 17, 1975, a federal jury in Sacramento sentenced Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme to life in prison for her attempted ...
As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...
On the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, the U.S. Military Academy is honoring its forefathers as it faces off against the ...
Have you given much thought to zippers or pockets? Ever considered the story behind Hawaiian shirts, corduroy, plaid or the ...
Personnel from a US airbase, RAF Mildenhall, have worked with archaeologists to uncover a WWII pilot and plane that crashed in 1944.
On Saturday, those volunteers placed American flags at more than 4,000 graves during Wreaths Across America Day at the ...
Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built, straddles 20th-century American cultural history. The following excerpt ...
Bill Stratemeier, the association's chief of staff, said in an interview with Newsday that the event, which included a ...
Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil ...
The Vietnam War has left deep social and political scars on the US psyche that still ache today. Pierre Asselin broadens our understanding through his recent book, Vietnam’s American War: A New ...