Celebrate Veteran’s Day with History Channel’s documentary “The American Soldier,” which will examine the bond between U.S. destiny and its soldiers. The documentary is set to premiere Monday, ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Sebastián Villaorduña hadn’t even sworn his oath of citizenship but he had already committed to fighting, and potentially dying, for America. The 23-year-old had arrived in the ...

When the U.S. military last year shuttered its huge drone base in Niger, operating for years near the site of an ancient ...

It is hardly a bombshell that the Civil War would dominate a show titled “The American Soldier”; everyone fighting the Civil War was an American soldier. It is curious, however, that this Veterans Day ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.

The remains of a 17-year-old soldier from Michigan who went missing in action during the Korean War have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Tuesday, just days after the ...

“Why did I enlist? Why did I go to war?” are but two of the questions that Private Danny Chen asks himself in the powerful docu-opera, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang. It was ...

Three American soldiers were declared deceased on Monday after crews in Lithuania retrieved the M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle they were traveling in, which sank in a swamp last week. The ...

The American Soldier traces the evolution of America’s fighting men and women over the 250-year history of the nation. From the early settlers and the Revolutionary War against Britain, soldiers have ...