From the Civil War to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, global conflicts have inspired many dark shows, but few are as harrowing as these.

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The iconic Square D tail code on the 100th ARW's KC-135 tankers came to pass and endures due to an obscure, inauspicious ...

Despite its ambitious design, the Typhon frigate program faced significant technical, financial, and bureaucratic challenges ...

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Lt. Cmdr. James Coe of the submarine Skipjack battled for his boat to receive what he deemed a basic necessity: toilet paper.

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

T his summer, we observe the 80th commemoration of the costly Allied victory over the Axis Powers in World War II. These countries, characterized by evil, racial ideologies that justified ...

80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman's remains identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945 ...

Navy tanker named after Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay politician, will be renamed for Oscar V. Peterson, who sacrificed his life saving others in World War II.

Milk served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955 as a diving officer during the Korean War on the submarine rescue ship Kittiwaki.