Field jacket style, like the field-ready trench boot, the pilot’s watch or the workwear-ready five-pocket blue jean, was a reliable-as-can-be selection for soldiers long before it became a modern ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

On the morning of May 29, 1942, Mary Tsukamoto awoke to find her mattress on the floor. Glancing around the bedroom that she ...

"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 ... a field that had been freshly plowed and embedded itself about 10 feet deep. Even though several sets of dog tags had been recovered from the crash site, the Army ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. - After 80 years, a World War II Army airman who went missing in action has been identified, and officials say the man was a Livermore resident. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...

Davies, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Army ... Field-Marshall Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt of Germany. When interviewed by newspapermen, he readily admitted how important oil had been in World War ...

BBC news reports on the evacuation of children on 1 September 1939.