Daniel Inouye of Honolulu, Hawaii, was a U.S. Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions in Italy 80 years ago today on April 21, 1945. He was also a U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. During the Japanese attack…

During World War II, the US Marine Corps (USMC) and US Navy (USN) engaged in a significant battle when they landed on and ultimately took Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The objective of the American invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was to seize the island and its…

But the French weren’t going down without a quiet fight. Instead of explosives or open rebellion, they used something far sneakier: a dipstick. Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the head of Citroën at the time, came up with a clever act of sabotage. He ordered the oil dipsticks in the trucks to be…

She is best known as one of the most accomplished female pilots to serve during World War II. Did you know that an American woman was flying the skies during the attack on Pearl Harbor? Her father wouldn’t have liked it. He’d seen the dangers of flight, and he’d hoped…

This text from Steve Lunderstedt (KIMBERLEY CALLS…AND RECALLS): “On this day, the 12th December, in 1899, as the sun rose in the sky on the battlefield of Magersfontein, the OFS burghers in the trenches closest to the wounded Scottish soldiers still lying badly wounded after some 24 hours, had heard…

Of all the war’s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There’s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one’s breast like a nightmare. Trenches look like…

“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging, even waving. There was one…

The Feast of St. Nicholas is celebrated in parts of Europe on 6 December. On the preceding evening of 5 December, Krampus Night or Krampusnacht, the wicked hairy devil appears on the streets. Sometimes accompanying St. Nicholas and sometimes on his own, Krampus visits homes and businesses. The Krampus (German:…

Bronx mother accused of hanging her 6-year-old daughter in a closet and beating her before she died due to prolonged abuse has been indicted, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lynija Eason Kumar, 27, was charged with murder and manslaughter after cops were called to the family’s 12th-floor apartment in NYCHA’s Forest Houses…

The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 Feet. Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to kick in the back window, injuring himself in the process. He proceeded to save twenty people trapped in the bus, one at…