1,500 US Marines Land in Lebanon
This nameplate was used in 1958
Masthead 1986
This nameplate was used in 1986

WWII

A black-and-white, 1940s-era image of a military officer, seen from the chest up, posing in dress uniform and hat.

DOD agency identifies missing remains of Medal of Honor recipient killed in 1945

The Defense Department announced Friday that it had identified the missing remains of a Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in the Philippines in 1945 while a prisoner of war.

Members of the 75th World War II Commemoration Committee talk with reporters at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020.

Fourteen eyewitnesses to Japan’s 1945 surrender are expected in Hawaii for 75th anniversary

Fourteen U.S. veterans who witnessed Japan surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, are slated to attend a ceremony in Hawaii next month commemorating the historic event’s 75th anniversary.

This photograph discovered by Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum officials at the Library of Congress in 2016 is believed to have been taken from the B-29 bomber Enola Gay after it dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945.

‘Irresistible weapon’: Historians say American history oversimplifies atomic bombings on Japan

In spring and summer 1945, American politicians, generals and scientists pondered how to best use the terrible power of the atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project in New Mexico.

Pale Ale

A new brew for the USS Indianapolis crew

Those who survived the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis tell some pretty incredible tales – unembellished accounts of four hellish days spent adrift in shark-infested waters, where 880 sailors died.

Army

At long last, a final resting place for two men lost during WWII

Two men who served in the Army Air Forces during World War II were finally laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.

At Pearl Harbor

Wreckage of sunken WWII warship USS Indianapolis discovered, Navy announces

The Navy announced on Saturday that the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis was found in the Philippine Sea at a depth of more than 18,000 feet below the water's surface.

Female pilots, from left, Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn, walk from their aircraft at Lockbourne Army Air Force Base in Ohio during World War II.

White House: Obama will sign burial rights for female WWII pilots

President Barack Obama is expected to sign a law this week allowing a group of trailblazing female World War II pilots to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, the White House said Thursday.