US Army Marks 81 Years Since Liberation of Last Nazi Concentration Camp
Fourteen soldiers from the 7th Army Training Command represented the Americans who liberated one of the worst Nazi concentration camps at a ceremony in Austria on May 10. The troops, assigned to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center’s 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, provided the color and honor guards for the Mauthausen Memorial’s annual International Liberation […]
Coast Guard Cutter 'Tampa' Wreck Found Off UK Coast After Over 100 Years
A British diving team has located a Coast Guard cutter wreckage that occurred over a century ago, with officials reminiscing on the lives sacrificed that fateful day. The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the cutter Tampa was located and confirmed by the British technical diving team Gasperados, at a site roughly 50 miles off Newquay, […]
Chevs Of The '40s: The Only Cars The Golden Bowtie Produced 80 Years Ago
War is bad for business, unless you’re an arms dealer. It puts the economy into decline, makes people not spend, and can affect supply lines. When World War Two broke out, the US was in one of the better positions compared to the rest of the world to weather the storm. While there was a […]
Senate Budget Resolution Would Add $1.2T to Defense Spending Over 10 Years
The House is taking up a Senate-passed budget resolution that sets nearly $1 trillion in defense spending—roughly $500 billion below the levels President Donald Trump has publicly pushed—setting up a potential battle within the Republican Party over how far to go on military funding. The framework outlines roughly $5.5 trillion in federal spending for Fiscal […]
Missing WWII Buffalo Soldier Brought Home From Italy After 81 Years
A Buffalo Soldier from New Haven, Connecticut, who disappeared during the Allied push through northern Italy in 1944 has been identified and buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced. U.S. Army Pfc. St. Clair M. Gibson, 30, was accounted for May 7, 2025. The agency issued an […]
‘I Want My Purple Heart:’ WWII Veteran Pushes for Medal He Said Earned 80 Years Ago
World War II veteran Glenn Fisher has lived a long, rewarding life. He’s set to turn 100 later this year. However, something very important is missing – the Purple Heart Fisher said he earned 80 years ago. Fighting with the Army along Europe’s Rhine River in 1945, Fisher was struck by shrapnel, with a piece […]
Fort Wainwright Soldier Gets 32 Years for Child Exploitation Crimes
A U.S. Army soldier based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, will spend more than three decades in federal prison after admitting he produced child sexual abuse material, amassed thousands of explicit files and assaulted a young victim, federal prosecutors announced Friday. David Andres Mayoral, 21, received the 32-year prison term at a federal courthouse in Fairbanks, […]
Korean War Soldier Returns Home After 75 Years. His Brother Is Still Missing
Generations of the Patton family gathered at the Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery on March 9 for a burial that was more than seven decades in the making. The man at the center of it all, Army Cpl. Marvin Silvester Patton had been missing since the earliest stages of the Korean War. Patton was 20 years […]
Investigators Say Deadly Midair Collision near DC Followed Years of Ignored Warnings about Traffic
WASHINGTON — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington, D.C. A helicopter route in the approach path of a Reagan National […]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz 81 Years Ago Today
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers who had survived years of fierce combat against German forces entered a sprawling complex of barracks and barbed wire in southern Poland known as Auschwitz. What they found there would define how the world remembers the Holocaust. Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. […]