In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

In this latest installment of Wars of the World’s Deadliest Combatants series, we examine four Americans who went far beyond ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

In downtown Manila, rows upon rows of headstones are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ...

Amanda Aussems-Poskanzer of Slingerlands led hundreds during a weekly Run for Their Lives walk through Albany for more than ...

There’s no shortage of books offering words of wisdom. For comedian, actor, writer and director Richard Ayoade, such maxims ...

US President Donald Trump’s latest manoeuvres show signs of his learning from Israel, as the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro resembled the kidnapping of war criminal Adolf Eichmann, ...

An email recently arrived from a lady named Paula Gorgey, who is a fan of my work. We corresponded a bit and I learned that Paula is 100 years old and had grown up in Hungary. Sensing a good story, I ...

"Between Santa Cruz Point (Lighthouse Point) and Black Point, is a coved inlet once dubbed Santa Cruz Harbor in the 1850s," ...

The Constellation equipment failures were preceded by several others. At the end of 2022 the first of the new American Ford class CVN/Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier finally left for its long delayed ...

Combat welder? There is a classification in both the United States Army and the US Navy today, but in the South Pacific ...

In the first half of 1945, the Japanese press began spreading some astonishing messages: their bombings had set North ...