They called it "Operation Overlord." We know it as D-Day.

These hallowed grounds are full of history and sacrifice.

Although there are many local military museums, there is not an official national museum for the United States Army -- not yet, anyhow. The Army Historical Foundation is currently working hard to raise funds for the National Museum of the United States Army, with plans to break ground in 2015.

Armed Forces Day, conceived Four years after the end of WWII, unifies previously separate Army, Navy, and Air Force Days.

Rosie the Riveter was a WWII icon.

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces orchestrated the largest water-to-land invasion in history, famously known as D-Day. The operation was ultimately successful in regaining control of Normandy's coast from the Axis powers, but resulted in the loss of many soldiers on both sides. This June, for the seventy-year anniversary of the tide-turning invasion, France will honor the surviving D-Day veterans with a two-month commemoration of the Battle of Normandy.

K9 units are a critical part of the teams that protect our country.

Though the war in the Pacific would rage on for several more months, the fighting in Europe officially ceased on May 8, 1945, ending six years of violent bloodshed. Though it’s difficult to imagine seven decades later, the sheer emotion of the event echoes to this day, captured in footage of the overjoyed crowds released from the inconceivable terror of total war. See the jubilation for yourself.

In President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell speech to the American public, the serviceman-turned-politician outlined a foreboding prediction for the then-burgeoning “military-industrial complex” (the composition of the the military, the legislative branch, and the commercial enterprises that manufacture products and provide services for the military), which also happened to come true. Eisenhower served as a...

WWII Navy veteran gave up waiting for his medals after 67 years.