The real story of how NORAD began tracking Santa Claus
Seventy years ago, a wrong number prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin issuing reports of St. Nick’s progress on Christmas Eve.
Military History
How the Civil War inspired this iconic poet’s classic Christmas song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow vehemently objected to his son’s desire to enlist in the Union Army.
Ham, turkey and cigars? A look at Christmas festivities during WWII
It's not too late to put Snowflake potatoes on one's Christmas day menu.
Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of last Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105
There remain only about a dozen survivors of the 1941 surprise attack, which killed just over 2,400 troops and propelled the U.S. into World War II.
The American who was held in Ireland’s WWII internment camp — twice
Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and join fishing and golf trips.
America’s Dunkirk: The battle of Long Island
Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the the Continental Army.
First teaser trailer for Jimmy Stewart biopic just dropped
'Jimmy' is set to hit theaters Nov. 6, 2026.
Against all odds: The 2nd Infantry Division’s fight at Elsenborn Ridge
The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.
How Field Marshal Montgomery predicted the rise of drone warfare
While delivering a speech in 1954, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gave prescient insights into the future of warfare.
He went from mowing FDR’s lawn to the Battle of the Bulge
Ralph J. Osterhoudt, 96, recalls his youth with the Roosevelts, and fighting through France and Germany.
This military training camp team almost won a national championship
On Nov. 20, 1943, the eyes of a weary nation focused, just for a moment, on a battle playing out stateside.
These Army-Navy game players would go on to receive the Medal of Honor
Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for valor.
Why Hitler declared war on the United States
Was it an irrational act? Hardly. Pearl Harbor merely gave him the excuse he had long been seeking.
You can thank Theodore Roosevelt for the Army-Navy game
Canceled by President Grover Cleveland. Restored by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt — the Army-Navy football game is in its 135th year.
Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive
As survivors fade, their descendants and the public are increasingly turning to other ways of learning about the bombing.
How one Japanese vessel spectacularly failed at Pearl Harbor
Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow to the “sleeping giant."
The pajama pilot over Pearl Harbor
Philip M. Rasmussen was one of the few American pilots to get into the air in the skies on Dec. 7, 1941. He was still in his pajamas.
