On the night of October 24, 1942, Sgt. John Basilone kept his machine guns firing on Guadalcanal until a Japanese regiment was gone. He turned down a commission to go back, and died on Iwo Jima's...

At 6:22 a.m. on October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the BLT 1/8 headquarters at Beirut International Airport and killed 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers. Here is what happened, and what came...

Two of the hardest landings the Marine Corps ever made fell on September 15, six years apart, and the same colonel led the same regiment ashore both times. Peleliu in 1944, Inchon in 1950, and five...

Women were providing nursing services for the Army before the United States were formed. They didn't have the rankings we see today in the military, because women were not allowed to officially join...

The Bravery of Sergeant James Edmund Johnson James Edmund Johnson was born in Pocatello, Idaho in 1926. In high school, he played basketball, then  joined the Marine Corps in 1943. After serving...

The Haven class of hospital ships were built for the United States Navy during World War II. They were the first ships to be fully air conditioned, and capable to receive wounded soldiers directly by...