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US, Philippine forces stage combat drills near strategic Bashi Channel
U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills near southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry.
‘Ghosts’ of WWII to be honored with Congressional Gold Medal
Activated in 1944, the unit known as the Ghost Army was the first mobile, multimedia tactical deception outfit in U.S. Army history.
Man charged for posing as doctor to steal vet suicide prevention funds
A federal grand jury indicted a Massachusetts man for posing as a doctor to steal $50,000 in suicide prevention funds designed to help vets.
Black soldiers wrongly executed for 1917 riot get new headstones
The men's convictions were set aside by an Army review panel in November.
Marine Corps’ deadliest sniper, Charles ‘Chuck’ Mawhinney, dies at 75
The Lakeview, Oregon, native recorded 103 confirmed kills in Vietnam over the span of 16 months in 1968 and 1969.
By Jon Simkins
DOD ‘slow rolling’ fair special pays for Guard, Reserve, advocates say
Pentagon officials fear such reforms could harm active duty retention.
By Davis Winkie
‘All we can do for you now’: How Czech sabotage saved a B-17 crew
It was not until the 1944 introduction of the P-51 Mustang that B-17s would be regularly accompanied by fighter escorts.
Inside the US Army’s failed nuclear ice lair in Cold War Greenland
While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
Last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII dies
Japan invaded Attu in June 1942 and held the Attuans captive in Japan. The invasion prompted the only World War II battle on North American soil.
Inside the infamous porn obsession of Hitler’s Nazi protégé
Julius Streicher was executed by hanging in October 1946.
Where the ‘Battleship’ board game originated
Historians trace its origins back to World War I.
By Sarah Sicard