How the Confederate flag came to be. Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue ...

U.S. Navy sailors man the rails as the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on March 23, 2012, for a deployment to the Western Pacific.

Conservatives slammed liberal politicians and members of the media for branding an enduring Revolutionary War-era flag as a "MAGA battle flag," in their attempt to tie Supreme Court Justice Samuel ...

When the USS New Jersey left the pier for the first time in two decades at the end of March, it did so in style -- with the warship's unusual yellow battle flag flying in the wind.. Decommissioned ...

Raising the standard of history. Around a dozen preserved Civil War battle flags are on public display in the "Follow the Flag" exhibit at The Ohio History Center, with most being stored off site.

In support of the U.S. Navy’s (USN) Integrated Battle Problem 2023 (IBP-23) exercise in May, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) conducted a series of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The rare regimental battle flag, long thought lost to history, was carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry and captured by Union forces during Pickett's Charge in the Battle of Gettysburg. A rare ...

The Ionia regiment's battle flag is a more costly and finer design than most Civil War flags, and the banner has been sought by Civil War conservationists for decades.

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.