Category: Military History

Check out the highlights of Major Stephanie Czech Rader’s career in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

View historical footage from Fort Benning, Georgia, where selected officers and men are trained to develop their leadership skills to the ultimate degree.

In the early spring of 1936, people taking a stroll in the quiet, bucolic lanes of Hampshire, in southern England, would occasionally hear the roar of a powerful airplane overhead and—if lucky—would catch a glimpse of a startling new shape in the sky, a fighter with wings shaped like a broad and sharp knife blade. […]

By the end of 1970, some 2,497 4th Infantry Division soldiers had been killed and 15,229 had been wounded.

To be a U.S. Navy SEAL is to be a part of U.S. Special Operations Command’s force of choice to conduct small-unit maritime military operations.

Take a look at why the Navy SEALs form a crucial element of Naval Special Warfare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElEMTTxzYtA The Australian Story episode Into the Lion’s Den showcases some rare, colour footage of Special Operations Australia commandos training in secret during World War II. Shot in the remote bush of Fraser Island in Queensland, well away from the public gaze, it is a glimpse into the world of espionage and the art of […]

By the spring of 1862, a year into the American Civil War, Major General Ulysses S. Grant had pushed deep into Confederate territory along the Tennessee River. In early April, he was camped at Pittsburg Landing, near Shiloh, Tennessee, waiting for Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s army to meet up with him. On the morning […]

A decade after the Marine Corps stood up its new special operations command, Marine Raiders are helping lead the charge against the Islamic State group, training local troops across the African continent and quietly conducting missions across the Asia-Pacific region. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command activated on Feb. 24, 2006, to lend the Corps’ muscle to U.S. Special […]

Featured photo courtesy David Hollingsworth (via AP) ALBANY, N.Y. –  Dorothy Hollingsworth was just 7 when her brother Tom left the family farm in Indiana to join the Army a few months before the United States entered World War II. She never saw him again. Now, more than 70 years after Pfc. Thomas E. Davis […]

Military legend Larry Thorne served in the Finnish military, German military, and U.S. Special Forces.

(Originally published by the Daily News on Feb. 17, 1943. This story was written by Hy Turkin.) A couple of local baseball stars are about to rise in the Service sky. News broke here late yesterday afternoon that Yank slugger Joe DiMaggio had received permission from his draft board to enlist in the Army, and […]