More than 80 years after he flew over occupied France in World War II, a 100-year-old American veteran received the highest French military honor.
Retired Staff Sgt. Phillip Bruce Cook was presented with the Legion of Honor on April 9 by Anne-Laure Desjonqueres, the French consul general. Cook, who flew as a ball turret gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress during some of the heaviest aerial fighting of the war in Europe, is now a Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honor.
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Ruth Kuehn picked the wrong boyfriend.
When Kuehn was 19 years old, she had an affair with Joseph Goebbels. The Nazi Party’s chief propagandist was married at the time and nearly twice Kuehn’s age, but those concerns were inconsequential. Goebbels broke up with Kuehn, the daughter of a German spy, only after discovering a fact about her heritage.
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Kuehn was half-Jewish.
The US Government has awarded Lockheed Martin a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor production contract.
When I teach the Civil War, I frequently encounter surprised faces when students learn that California, so far from the eastern battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, played a critical, strategic role in safeguarding the Union.
Central to that story is Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, a place synonymous with isolation, security, and notoriety.
Sweden’s Gute II concept builds on a layered C-UAS system proven in Gotland in June last year, where conscripts tested several systems.
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A new and not immediately recognizable launcher has emerged on the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carl M.
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The new Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA) is part of the Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver (DIGAR) system installed in the F-15E Strike Eagle following a contract to BAE Systems…
The Iranian Air Force has deployed at least two of its newly delivered Russian Mi-28 attack helicopters for a flight over the capital Tehran, in what appears to be a show of force following widespread Western claims that all the aircraft were destroyed. The Mi-28 is the only modern combat aircraft known to currently be active in Iranian service, with deliveries having been confirmed only in January 2025. The fact that Iran’s most high value aircraft have survived over a month of intensive U.S.
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The ship, named after a Medal of Honor recipient and retired Marine Corps colonel, now serves alongside the Navy’s fleet of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers