The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the fiercest and longest battles in the Pacific, exacting heavy losses on both American and Japanese forces. Although the island seemed minor, its Henderson ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family.

"I actually went to the cinema for that and paid legal tender to see it, which is funnier than the film's jokes when I think ...

How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Submarines are hard to kill. For military strategists, no warship ...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes ...

The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demand ...