On 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber ...

The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a new memorial honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese ...

On Feb. 3, 1943 during World War II, US Army Chaplains Lt. George L. Fox (Methodist), Lt. Alexander D. Goode (Jewish), Lt.

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

They’re the caretakers of one of only five remaining diesel boats in the U.S. fleet, a boat that in many ways was the link ...

The Pentagon says China is focused on “national total war,” blending its military with civilian industry, blockades, tech ...

President Trump has proposed a costly and dangerous initiative to build a new fleet of battleships, the “Trump Class”, which ...

Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, ...

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 ...

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