#Military History

Articles (15)

• 🇺🇸 The same Native languages that saved American lives were once at risk — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  'Texas ... is honoring our military’s use of code based on Native languages. That code was unbreakable in World Wars I and II and contributed to saving many lives in combat,' writes an L.A. Times read...

  Related: #Cultural Recognition, #Historical Irony
• 🇺🇸 Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  The F-14 was made famous in <em>Top Gun</em>. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sa...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 From the archives: Day 1 of the Iraq War — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  On March 20, 2003, a coalition of U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq, marking the start of the eponymous war. Watch the full "CBS Evening News" broadcast from that day.

  Related: #Archival Journalism
• 🇺🇸 Trump compares Pearl Harbor to strikes on Iran in meeting Japan’s leader — 20/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 Remains of sailor identified more than 8 decades after Pearl Harbor attack — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

  Related: #Forensic Science
• 🇺🇸 550-pound WWII bomb defused after thousands evacuated — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency services said.

  Related: #Public Safety
• 🇺🇸 Bo Gritz, Vietnam Veteran Called a Real-Life Rambo, Dies at 87 — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  He served in the Special Forces, led a postwar raid to find P.O.W.s and became a voice of the right-wing anti-government fringe.

  Related: #Controversial Figure
• 🇺🇸 Trump’s Iran War and the Shadow of Iraq — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  The desire for a revolutionary presidency gives hubris a lot of space to work.

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Marks 100 Years Since First Guard Posting — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Soldiers continue to stand watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, one of the most revered sites at Arlington National Cemetery, through every season and storm, a reminder of the nation's enduring...

  Related: #National Remembrance
• 🇺🇸 U.S. plans to exhume and identify remains of 88 Pearl Harbor sailors — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  The USS Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack.

  Related: #Forensic Identification
• 🇺🇸 US aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and who were buried as unknowns in a H...

  Related: #Forensic Identification
• 🇬🇧 A beer at sunrise then back on duty – the British pilot who made RAF history shooting down Iranian drones — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>F-35 pilot based in Cyprus becomes first to destroy a target in combat – and celebrates with a single beer</p><p>In the clear skies above Jordan on Monday night, a British F-35 pilot made a small p...

  Related: #International Tensions
• 🇺🇸 Honoring Operation Desert Storm: Waging a battle to build a war memorial — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  In 1991 more than half a million Americans served in Operation Desert Storm; 148 were killed in action, to free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Yet, when Marine veteran Scott Stump set out to build a memo...

  Related: #Memorialization, #Veterans Affairs, #Political Advocacy, #Historical Memory
• 🇺🇸 These United States: George Washington and climate change — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  On the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in an unanticipated crossing of a near-frozen Delaware River. Environmental corresp...

  Related: #Climate Change, #Historical Perspective
• 🇺🇸 D-Day veteran who 'never thought of himself as a hero' dies aged 100 — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Lamond served during the Normandy landings and later helped rescue PoWs in the Pacific.

  Related: #World War II, #Obituary