In 1967, US pilots launched one of the most daring air operations of the Vietnam War, using deception to lure North Vietnamese MiG-21s into a deadly trap. What followed was a sudden and violent shift ...

For more than half a century, the U.S. Army's standard infantry rifle has undergone a remarkable transformation, from the battle rifles of World War II to the compact, modular carbines carried by ...

A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...

With US-Israeli bombs continuing to fall on Iran and Lebanon, one might have expected American leftists to be focused on ...

After nearly six decades, a Wyoming Vietnam vet returns to the battlefields he survived—this time to face the ghosts that ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

Hundreds gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn as as officials remember the 85 local heroes who never made it back.

Retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr., a Bishopville, South Carolina, native now living in Jacksonville, North Carolina, is one presidential signature away from finally receiving the Medal of Honor for ...

The Chinese are the only country to use water as weapon of war, an area of deep concern for India. They have been able to ...

Readers love Tassie storylines in Mary-Lou Stephens’s best-selling novels but many don’t realise the Hobart-born author pens books from exotic locations during her global “slow travel” adventures ...

From folk laments to industrial assaults, these 21 tracks serve as the definitive sonic frontline against the machinery of ...

In 1967, as the Vietnam War was heating up, 18-year-old Johnnie Ashe, a Marine nearing the end of his tour, approached his ...