On the humid night of August 21, 1942, American Marines on Guadalcanal uncover detailed Japanese plans to retake Henderson Field. As they prepare for the looming assault, the stakes rise, intelligence ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

Charles Jackson French, a WWII Navy hero, will have a destroyer named after him. He saved 15 men from shark-infested waters in 1942.

Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme ...

Seaman 1st Class Calvin Graham shortly after enlistment in 1942, when he was 12 years old, and the ship on which he was stationed, the USS South Dakota, in August 1943 near the Norfolk Naval Shipyard ...

USS The Sullivans (DD-537), the ship named for the five Irish American brothers who were all killed on November 13, 1942, while serving together in the US Navy during World War II, was commissioned on ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

“The delivery of USS Cleveland, our final Freedom-variant LCS, symbolizes the U.S. Navy’s unwavering vigilance and a ...

America250PA last week dedicated a custom-designed bell sculpture outside the former Tacony home of World War II hero Al ...

Plant City veteran keeps us from forgetting. Brandon Shearer’s attraction to all things military began when he was in fifth grade. He found a series of books in his elementary school library in Ft.