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Military History

  • The Douglas VC-54C Skymaster, the first aircraft purpose-built to fly the president, was officially called the Flying White House, but became better known by its nickname, the Sacred Cow. (Ken LaRock/Air Force)
    The long road to an independent Air Force

    The Air Force celebrates its 73rd birthday today. But its creation was controversial for decades.

    C.V. Glines. Aviation History
    September 17, 2020
  • In this June, 21 1940, file photo, representatives of Germany with Adolf Hitler, seated second left, and France meet at Compiegne Forest, France, in the railroad dining car to discuss terms during World War II. (AP Photo)
    Hitler released his failed plan to invade England 80 years ago today

    Operation Sea Lion was an amphibious invasion intended to result in the German defeat of England.

    Harm Venhuizen
    July 16, 2020
  • A column of troops and armor of the 1st Marine Division move through communist Chinese lines during their successful breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. (Marine Corps)
    A brief history of the Korean War

    The "Forgotten War" in Korea broke out 70 years ago along the 38th parallel. It hasn't officially ended.

    Sarah Sicard
    June 25, 2020
  • Newspaper clipping from The Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan, from Tuesday, June 14, 1966, one day after U.S. Air Force Maj. William J. Vinopal crashed. Over 50 years later, a group of veterans aims to locate the wreckage of his F-106A fighter jet and identify his remains. (Courtesy of Donald Maury/Lake Huron Exploration)
    The quest to recover one Vietnam-era Air Force pilot lost in Lake Huron crash

    On June 13, 1966, U.S. Air Force Maj. William J. Vinopal climbed into his Convair F-106A Delta Dart, a single-seat, flight interceptor aircraft, for a routine training mission over the lake. It would turn out to be his last flight. Now, over 50 years later, a group of veterans is on a mission to locate the wreckage and recover Vinopal’s remains.

    Dylan Gresik
    March 2, 2020
  • Living relatives, government officials and Operation Benjamin members gather for a rededication ceremony for five Jewish-American service members killed in action in World War II and buried under Latin Crosses at Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines, on Feb. 12, 2020. The nonprofit locates and rectifies cases of incorrect gravestones for deceased Jewish soldiers. (Courtesy of Operation Benjamin)
    How one organization is working to correct cases of Jewish WWII soldiers mistakenly buried under Latin Cross headstones

    “It is very important for us for a soldier who lived and died as an American be acknowledged for posterity as an American. It is also equally important for us that a soldier who lived and died as a Jew, be recognized as a Jew.”

    Dylan Gresik
    February 21, 2020
  • Army Air Corps 2nd Lts. Ken Taylor, left, and George Welch were just leaving an all-night card game when they heard distant gunfire. (Air Force archives)
    These Air Corps pilots’ actions at Pearl Harbor made them among the first heroes of World War II

    Two heroic American aviators led a spirited defense against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

    Michael E. Haskew
    December 7, 2019
  • The USS Ling, a World War II-era submarine docked at the New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack, N.J., was vandalized earlier this year. (Rich Schultz/AP)
    Air Force and Army veteran duo aims to restore WWII submarine

    Air Force veteran Mark Gatton got the idea to save the USS Ling and bring it to Louisville, Ky., when he learned that the sub was going to be scrapped in New Jersey.

    The Associated Press
    November 16, 2019
  • Enlisted men aboard the aircraaft carrier Ticonderoga hear the news of Japan's surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. (Lt. B. Gallagher, now in the collections of the National Archives)
    The GI Bill should’ve been race neutral, politicos made sure it wasn’t

    While white veterans got into college with relative ease, black service members faced limited options and outright denial in their pursuit for educational advancement.

    Joseph Thompson, Mississippi State University
    November 9, 2019
  • An F-117 Nighthawk flies over the Nevada desert. A restored F-117A that flew 78 combat sorties, more than any other Nighthawk, will go on permanent public display at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Dec. 7. (Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II/Air Force)
    Restored F-117 Nighthawk coming to Reagan Library

    A restored F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, one of the most iconic aircraft in Air Force history, will soon be on permanent display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.

    Air Force Times staff
    November 4, 2019
  • A painting depicts the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. It shows U.S. Marine Sgt. Ladell Maples of Earle, Ark., left, and Cpl. Steve Kirtley of Little Rock, Ark., with their hands above their heads adorns a wall of the embassy, now partly a museum, in Tehran, Iran. Images like those of surrendering American troops carry a strong resonance for hard-liners in Iran. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
    Frozen in time, US Embassy a monument to Iran hostage crisis

    What initially began as a sit-in devolved into 444 days of captivity for 52 Americans seized in the embassy.

    Mehdi Fattahi and Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
    October 31, 2019
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