Rather than acting as kamikazes at Pearl Harbour in 1941, Japanese pilots were ordered to return to their carriers after ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

US Marine Corps Photo Japan’s military chiefs are warning that the country faces its most severe and complex security environment since World War II, attributing the outlook to China ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

To look at Lt. Alexander R. "Sandy" Nininger when he began his plebe year at the U.S. Military Academy, one might never have ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

What You Need to Know: Henry Kaiser’s mass-produced Casablanca-class “jeep carriers” became a crucial U.S. Navy asset during WWII. Though smaller and slower than fleet carriers, these escort ...

When one reads about the exploits of the World War II-era Gato -class United States Navy submarine, USS Barb (SS-220 ), one ...

Pvt. Oscar Avery Cox and other Bataan prisoners of war endured harsh conditions during World War II, including a miles-long march through hell. Despite the adversity, Cox and three fellow POWs decided ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...