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By Christopher Woody, Business Insider Jul 10, 2020

History

77 years ago, the Allies took the fight to the Axis in ‘the soft underbelly of Europe’

On July 10, 1943, the Allies invaded of Sicily and a thrust into what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called...

By Bill Bostock, Business Insider Mar 19, 2020

News

The Italian Army has started ferrying dozens of coffins from the northern city of Bergamo, the worst-hit city in Italy's...

By Task & Purpose Mar 3, 2020

History

Horseback units were made obsolete by the end of World War I but that didn't stop an Italian Cavalry unit...

By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun Oct 24, 2019

News

Emmett William Chappelle Sr., a retired NASA scientist who studied luminescence and once recruited children to collect fireflies for his...

By Morgan Cook, The San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 10, 2019

News

A federal judge in the criminal case against Rep. Duncan Hunter ruled in an order filed Tuesday that a campaign-funded...

By James Clark Sep 15, 2017

News

Weeks after USA Today broke the story about a married two-star general’s months-long text exchange with a subordinate's wife, bizarre...

By Jason Nulton Aug 12, 2015

Community

The military-Hollywood marriage has generated some of the best entertainment since the dawn of motion pictures, and has inspired many...

By Corey Adwar Apr 17, 2015

History

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ernie Pyle spent his last years embedded with troops in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Japanese-held islands...