We went metal detecting at a WWII US Army base because what could go wrong near 80-year-old military leftovers? The answer: a ...

Florencio Davila, a World War II veteran, died recently at age 99. His dying wish was to be buried with full military honors, but the government shutdown threatened his wish from happening.

U.S. Army Combat Engineers were the hidden force behind the Normandy breakout. From the beaches of Omaha and Utah to the ...

Found guilty in 2009, he had been serving a 22-year sentence but was released for health reasons at the request of the ...

Two Polish men in their 60s seem to have learned the hard way that handling old WWII shells while intoxicated can have ...

Preliminary findings indicate that the explosion was caused by a World War II artillery shell that detonated in the apartment ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

From ghostly cavalry patrols to phantom footsteps in 19th-century forts, haunted military base stories have become a staple ...

Navajo Code Talkers were a group of Marines in World War II who used their native language to transmit crucial military ...

President Trump is beginning his remarks to hundreds of American troops at the U.S.S. George Washington, an aircraft carrier ...