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The Queen watched the Remembrance Sunday service for the first time from her...
The Royal Family, senior politicians, including the British prime minister and representatives from the armed forces paid tribute to those who have suffered or died at war on November 12, 2017.The...
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The US Marine Corps is 242 years old — here are 42 striking photos of its...
The US Marine Corps turned 242 years old on November 10."At places like Trenton, Tripoli, Chapultepec, Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Chosin, Khe Sanh, Fallujah, Sangin, and so many others, Marines have...
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74 years ago, US Marines waded into 'the toughest battle in Marine Corps...
By the fall of 1943, Japanese forces had been ejected from Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific, and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific were on the verge of capture.US forces now had to...
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Here's how Nazi Germany lost on the Eastern Front to the Soviet Union in...
The attempted German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 ultimately failed.The German army split its forces in three.This was a major mistake, as the Germans underestimated the strength of Soviet...
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The 5 worst modern battles to fight as a foot soldier
Let’s be clear — all battles suck for a foot soldier, even the smaller ones. But there were some in recent times that sucked more than others for the lowly grunt, with body counts piling up, bad...
View ArticleThese 17 photos show Finland's brutally cold World War II battle with the...
These 17 photos show Finland's brutally cold World War II battle with the Soviet UnionSEE ALSO: 74 years ago, US Marines waded into 'the toughest battle in Marine Corps history' — here are 25 photos of...
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4 intense rivalries that emerged between military commanders who were once on...
Throughout military history, it was common for generals to only know of each other by reputation or by the deeds of their troops.But when lines are drawn, ideologies change, and another war is fought...
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Unforgettable photos from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 76 years ago...
Under the South Pacific sun on December 7, 1941, troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor began a calm Sunday morning unaware that Japanese bombers were headed toward America's most important...
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Here's what Pearl Harbor was like hours after the devastating Japanese attack...
December 7, 1941, began like any other Sunday at Pearl Harbor, the US's most important Pacific base.Sailors and airmen slowly roused themselves from sleep as the might of the US fleet sat at anchor...
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78 years ago, the British won a surprise victory over Nazi Germany in the...
World War II got off to a bad start for the British.About two weeks after Poland surrendered to Germany at the end of September — succumbing to a month of the Nazi blitzkrieg — the British battleship...
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73 years ago, the Nazis launched their last great western offensive of World...
By late 1944, Allied forces had pushed Nazi Germany back in much of Europe, retaking Paris and Rome.US Army intelligence determined that the thick evergreen forest of the Ardennes in Belgium would be a...
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The plane that led the D-Day invasion was lost for 70 years — until it turned...
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A plane that led the invasion of Normandy during World War II has been saved from a junkyard and carefully restored in Wisconsin.The C-47, called "That's All, Brother," carried the...
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A US Navy submarine missing since World War II was just found off the coast...
HONOLULU (AP) — A wreck-hunting organization located a sunken World War II submarine off the coast of Oahu.STEP Ventures found the USS S-28, which sunk in 1944 with 49 crew members aboard during...
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George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by cannibals during World War II
A US Navy pilot was shot down after making bombing runs over the tiny island of Chichijima during WWII.He and nine fellow naval aviators had to evade their Japanese enemy. Only one managed to...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight — here's how it helped...
As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in the late 1930s, Washington asked Consolidated Aircraft to start producing the plane.But after a visit to Boeing's factory...
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73 years ago, the Allies beat back the Nazis' last major western offensive —...
On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and almost 1,000 tanks drove into the Ardennes forest, across an 85-mile stretch of the front line, running from southern Belgium to...
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More soldiers used to die of disease than battle injuries — so the US Army...
During World War II, the US military realized that disease was as big a risk to the troops as any other enemy they would encounter.So they partnered with medical experts to create vaccines, which...
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How the US's massive bombardment of Iwo Jima during World War II made...
During the hell that was World War II, the US conducted 72 straight days of vicious bombing raids on the island of Iwo Jima to gain access. America did everything within their power to weaken Japanese...
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An unexploded World War II bomb that closed a London airport is being dragged...
A World War II bomb was found near the runway of London City Airport on Sunday.The airport closed Sunday night through Monday, with hundreds of flights canceled.The British Royal Navy dragged the bomb...
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The WWII bomb that shut down a London airport has been detonated at sea
An unexploded World War II bomb was discovered in the River Thames by the runway of London's City Airport.It shut for the day while Royal Navy divers removed the bomb, affecting 16,000 customers.The...
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