Honorable Discharge
On November 29, 1944, the War Department officially adopted the honorable discharge emblem.
On November 29, 1944, the War Department officially adopted the honorable discharge emblem.
On October 31, 1941, a German submarine torpedoed the USS Reuben James – the first US Navy ship destroyed during World War II.
Businessman and philanthropist Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.
On August 13, 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps Reserve.
On June 4, 1940, over 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk after being cut off and surrounded there for weeks.
The youngest man ever elected President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
On February 29, 1796, the Jay Treaty went into effect, resolving some lingering issues between America and Great Britain following the Revolutionary War.
On September 12, 1862, the Civil War Battle for Harpers Ferry began.
On August 2, 1943, future president John F. Kennedy saved the majority of his PT-109 crew after a Japanese destroyer rammed them.