Past Conflicts

Stories that focus on America's wars, from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Vietnam, Korea, and World War I and II.

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Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in “Pressure.” Image courtesy Focus Features/screenshot via YouTube.

‘Pressure’ trailer has Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower, and focuses a lot on D-Day’s weather

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted 3 Hours Ago

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Soldier who shielded Jewish POWs from guards will receive Medal of Honor

By Matt White, Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 18, 2026

Jeff Evans, center, with his sons Jake and Austin, at a seaside bar in Nha Trang, where his father was station in 1968. Family members believe the brothers might have gotten together in the city before David Evans' death in November 1968.

A father and uncle were killed in Vietnam. This family returned to remember them.

Posted on Feb 16, 2026

Navy pilot to receive Medal of Honor nearly 75 years after shooting down 4 MiGs

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 5, 2026

Family and friends attend a posthumous commission ceremony at Ke’ehi Lagoon Memorial State Park, Honolulu, Hi., Jan. 26, 2026. The ceremony was held to posthumously commission University of Hawaii ROTC cadets who died in combat during WWII. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Peter Bannister)

Labeled ‘aliens’ in World War II, 7 Japanese-American soldiers posthumously commissioned

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jan 28, 2026

NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy (Aug. 22, 2021) An Afghan family waits to exit a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III at Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella during Operation Allies Refuge Aug. 22, 2021. NAS Sigonella is currently supporting the Department of Defense mission to facilitate the safe departure and relocation of U.S. citizens, Special Immigration Visa recipients, and vulnerable Afghan populations from Afghanistan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Daniel M. Young)

Afghanistan War

Veterans defend Afghan ally programs as Trump closes doors

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jan 14, 2026

Image: Jeep: US soldiers of the 3rd Division having Christmas dinner on the hood of a jeep on the front lines, World War Two, France, December 25th 1943. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

How US troops in World War II celebrated Christmas dinner on the front

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 25, 2025

Navy pilot who took out 4 Soviet jets in covered-up mission may get Medal of Honor

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 8, 2025

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As Congress tries to claw back power, the president can still wage war unilaterally

By Jeff Schogol, nicholas Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 8, 2025

World War II veteran Charles Norman Shay, a Penobscot Native American, who took part in the Operation Overlord (Battle of Normandy) during the D-Day on June 6, 1944, poses on May 4, 2019 in Omaha Beach, western France. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

D-Day vet who moved to Normandy in final years dies at 101

Posted on Dec 4, 2025

Steven Price testifies at the Texas House of Representatives this year, and a photo from his time stationed in Panama in the early 1980s.

A veteran’s service in Panama isn’t covered by the VA. There are hundreds like him.

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Dec 1, 2025

On a snow covered hillside, three members of a US machine gun squad lay exhausted after taking a Communist position. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

On this day 74 years ago, one soldier staged a last stand to protect his unit

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Nov 24, 2025

Four F4U Corsair fighter airplanes return from a combat mission over North Korea and circle the aircraft carrier USS Boxer while waiting for the planes in the next strike force to launch from the deck, September 1951. US Navy photo. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)

That time the Air Force held a Marine hostage for steak

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Nov 12, 2025

A team of vets have created an interactive map of Afghanistan where vets can upload pictures and notes from the war as they remember it.

Afghanistan War

Veterans built an interactive map of Afghanistan to record 20 years of war

By Clay Beyersdorfer

Posted on Oct 21, 2025

A pilot went down in Vietnam to protect secrets. Will he get the Medal of Honor?

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Oct 21, 2025

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Afghanistan War

Adam Driver will portray Air Force Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 6, 2025