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 ...

In October 1942, the U.S. Navy confronted the Imperial Japanese Navy off Guadalcanal in the Battle of Cape Esperance. As darkness enveloped both fleets, neither knew exactly where the other was. The ...

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme and Fallujah that either broke enemy momentum or forced conflicts into ...

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

Frank Strait Wright squinted against the bright afternoon sun, his hazel eyes creasing at the corners. A warm, humid breeze blew across his weathered cheek as he ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...

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 ...

Two allies from Europe have entered the fray to save a beautiful mural from being destroyed. Wrecking teams are due to demolish the only building still standing at a former school in Swinton. Hidden ...

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 ...