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A look back at D-Day
On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower seized the moment to order airdrops of paratroopers and gliders behind enemy lines.
By Jon Guttman, History Net
Are you a 30-minute drive from your nearest VA medical facility? This map will show you
The new project from the American Enterprise Institute is the first comprehensive look at what a 30-minute drive-time standard for VA community care would be.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Laser-armed warships no longer science fiction
The Navy has never been closer to fielding directed-energy weapons.
‘Saving Private Ryan’ is heading back to theaters for the 75th anniversary of D-Day
Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) will be in 600 cinemas nationwide for just two days.
By Jon Simkins
This officer strangled his Florida fiancée
A plea deal leads to nine months’ confinement and dismissal from the Navy.
Remembering Wally
Before he became one of the Mercury Seven, the irreverent astronaut Walter Schirra cut his teeth flying Navy fighters.
By Barrett Tillman, Aviation History Magazine
That time the US dropped an atomic bomb on a fleet of 95 ships
Mistakes were made.
By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
New VA health care rules: Trump overreach or more choice for vets?
Debate over how to expand veterans health care choices connects to larger national fights over the role of government and private-sector partnerships.
Naval Academy grad faces attempted murder charges
The naval flight officer is accused of strangling and threatening a woman in 2017, according to Navy charge sheets.
In the last hours of war, blood and heroism and irony and loss
World War II was clearly in its closing days — or was it?
By Sam Moses, World War II Magazine
A Royal gaffe: UK postal service issues ‘Best of British’ D-Day stamp featuring US troops 8,500 miles away in the Pacific
A commemorative 2019 stamp celebrating British history had a glaring inaccuracy that internet users were quick to point out.
By Jon Simkins