One of the gruesome realities of war is that people die, and they often do so after sustaining a great deal of damage. Even with American Flags on their uniforms, it's often difficult to identify ...

Service members wear military identification tags (aka "dog tags") so they can be positively and easily recognized if they're too wounded to speak or killed in action. The most current version is oval ...

Was the simple notch on a WWII dog tag simply a design quirk, or was it an act of battlefield engineering in disguise? For decades, myths have circulated around this small indentation some stating it ...