Less than a dozen cadets and midshipmen who faced off in the annual rivalry game later earned the Medal of Honor for combat ...

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times. The first was awarded ...

St. Kilda [Vic.] : Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times, [1945] ...

As World War II entered its final year in 1945, a 19-year-old Army soldier from Columbia got caught in an intense battle thousands of miles away from home. Arthur W. Crossland Jr. was fighting ...

Other Free French units were directly attached to Allied forces, including the British SAS and RAF, and the Soviet Air Forces. The US Army also supplied the Free French Forces and Army of Africa with ...

"Happy Birthday!" A group of VA staff and family members yelled as Wayne Perry, an army and World War II Veteran, walked into the room. The surprise party was held at the Cleveland VA Clinic just ...

Harris, a World War II Army Air Corps bombardier, was killed in action in April 1944 after a bombing run over Brunswick, Germany. The Ford B24 Liberator Harris and the other nine members of the ...

Blitz, Lee and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare are probably the most prominent World War 2 films to release in ... this new film from Edoardo De Angelis charts an incredible true story ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

However, the military was able to meet its needs by drafting only up to age 45. Over 16 million Americans served during the war. 61.2 % of those who served were drafted and the other 38.8% volunteered ...