In this latest installment of Wars of the World’s Deadliest Combatants series, we examine four Americans who went far beyond the call of duty in World War II. Their actions earned the respect of their ...

A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber from the sea floor where the rare plane has rested for more than 80 years.

The USS Snook (SS-279) was one of the most successful American submarines of World War II, sinking dozens of enemy ships ...

Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 7 times today. Ukraine's ...

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

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 ...

The Navy has been struggling to place such a system on its disastrous Zumwalt- class destroyers. One of the main problems ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It's why some World War II soldiers may have gotten thrifty with their tactical ...

At 102, retired Air Force Capt. Dick Nelms, who flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany in a Boeing B-17, shares his WWII ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

Woodrow Wilson’s speech on January 8, 1918, changed the course of U.S. foreign policy and international diplomacy.