Louisiana provided about 80,000 men to the U.S. armed forces during World War I. The 39th (National Guard) Division drew units and troops from Louisiana, and Louisiana provided many of the original selected servicemen to the 87th Division as well.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.

Family members of World War II Radioman 2^nd Class Julius Pieper gathered at Normandy American Cemetery in France today, 74 years after his death, to attend his burial.

The remains of a U.S. sailor recently accounted-for from World War II will be interred with full military honors at Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 19, 2018. 

Before the United States entered World War I in April 1917, German U-boats sunk more than 880,000 tons of shipping—a wartime peak that reduced British grain stores to a six weeks’ supply.

American military leadership knew that defeating Germany in World War II would require a complex strategy that included devastation of German industry.

June 6, 2018 marks the 100^th anniversary of one of the first American offensives—the Battle of Belleau Wood, a pivotal event in World War I and an iconic battle in U.S. Marine Corps history.

The visitor center at Pointe du Hoc will close on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 3 p.m. due to the annual D-Day commemoration ceremony. However, the rest of the site will remain open for the ceremony, and until the normal closing time of 6 p.m. 

This year marks the 150^th anniversary of Memorial Day. While remembrance of America’s war dead took place prior to 1868, it wasn’t until the post-Civil War era that this national commemoration fully emerged. Maj. Gen.  John A.