National Tin Can Day was a couple of weeks ago. I missed it — along with most of the world, I would imagine. But the occasion got me thinking about tin cans (as we used to call them), and the many ...

The U.S. Department of Defense’s premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command selected a ...

The top enlisted leader in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers engaged with the USACE Nashville District workforce ...

Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20, 1942, ...

Among the millions of World War II veterans were seven future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

That’s the task Aaron Asano Swenson, a first-time playwright, had at hand as he embarked on writing “Kilo-Wat,” a play about ...

Tilly Laskey has been a curator at the Maine Historical Society for 10 years. She’s created a platform for other curators or ...

American soldiers are widely known as G.I.s -- but where did this name come from? And how did it get attached to a wide ...

At 2 p.m., our featured presenter will be Mary Ellen Johnson, Guilderland town historian, who will make a presentation on the varied activities of the Army depot in World War II. This is now the ...

Russell Clarence Nalle Jr., one of the last surviving World War II Tuskegee Airmen members, has died. He was 103.

In October, the Canadian Coast Guard cleaned up tar balls floating to the ocean's surface from the site of a World War II era ...

Initially named after Southern Gen. Braxton Bragg, the post was stripped of the name in 2023 amid a drive to remove symbols ...