Jack Martens, who turned 102 in Salem, served on naval destroyers during and after World War II and when he wasn't in uniform, he was learning to fly.

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

Combat welder? There is a classification in both the United States Army and the US Navy today, but in the South Pacific ...

What started as a birthday party at Big Spring’s Hangar 25 turned into a tribute to a century of life, service, and sacrifice ...

The seven soldiers were kicked out of an ROTC program as World War II began. Last week, they were commissioned as Army ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

The Army has posthumously commissioned seven University of Hawaii ROTC cadets of Japanese descent who were killed during ...

Japanese American soldiers will be promoted in a ceremony, decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded “enemy aliens.” ...

John Breckenridge’s military legacy was borne in war on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. A pragmatic thinker often ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --The number of U.S. law enforcement officers and agents who died while in the line of duty in 2025 was the lowest since 1943, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund ...