Across 1943, the skies over Darwin saw repeated dogfights between RAAF Spitfires and Japanese Zeros. Mechanical failures and ...
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May 7, 1942. Ten American P-40 Warhawk fighters patrolled the skies over Port Moresby, the last critical barrier between ...
Veterans Day is the day when America rightfully pays homage to the men and women who answered a nation’s call to service to ...
From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War ...
The US soldiers and Allied crews who passed through Dhaka during the war ended up fighting two battles at once ...
The ship is the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship, and the second to last of the troubled ships to enter ...
In 1942, a 12-year-old Calvin Graham started shaving (even though he didn’t need to), deepened his voice, carefully forged ...
The author gratefully acknowledges assistance for this article from Darlene Dingman, who suggested the topic, and the ...
At 106, former Army nurse Alice Darrow joins a dwindling group of World War II nurses still alive who treated the wounded ...
Cornelia Elliot took her job as a registered nurse at King’s Daughters Hospital in Yazoo City seriously and with pride. But her country was at war, and she was ready to do her part like many of the ...