Category: History

Soldiers training at Fort McCoy in 2022 have amenities and access to resources that their predecessors couldn’t have imagined possible.

The Red Ball Express was a microcosm of the larger Black American experience during World War II. Prompted by the Pittsburgh Courier, an influential Black newspaper at the time, Black Americans rallied behind the Double V campaign during the war, which aimed to secure victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism at home.

Abrams became a Soldier and he left for Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day 1967. The private arrived in Chu Lai as a member of 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, retired Private 2nd Class Warren H. Schuster stepped foot on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and returned to 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division after more than 71 years.

On 15 October 1942, the War Department’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) activated the Military Censorship School at Fort Washington, Maryland.

On 24 October 1966, 1st Lt. John F. Cochrane of the 409th Radio Research Detachment (RRD), 303d Radio Research Battalion, was killed by a Viet Cong sniper while looking for a suitable site to set up a PRD-1 direction finder. He was one of two battlefield losses within the detachment.

The Cold War relationship between the two rival nations was often tense. Once, it led to the threat of nuclear war breaking out because Russia wanted to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, very close to the U.S. That brought the world to the brink of what would have been a catastrophic conflict.

The Army Black Knights face the Colgate Raiders, Oct. 15, at Michie Stadium, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

In the years following World War II, the cost of war was a major topic of discussion. The United States and its allies had spent billions of dollars on the war effort, and there was a lot of debate about how to pay for it all.

The Polish Air Force is a national military branch that came into being shortly before World War II. Its history dates back to 1918 when the first air unit was formed as an independent organization.

Kenya and Ethiopia have a long and complicated history. The two countries have been in conflict with each other for centuries, and their relations are still tense today.

The United States has had a complicated relationship with a nuclear power over the years. Initially, the government was very supportive of it, but that sentiment changed in the 1970s after the Three Mile Island accident.