Across 1943, the skies over Darwin saw repeated dogfights between RAAF Spitfires and Japanese Zeros. Mechanical failures and ...

Learn how potatoes played a surprising role in a WWII submarine battle, becoming one of the quirkiest little known legends in ...

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 ...

There was no Armistice Day parade in the Wyoming Valley in November 1942, as the United States — 11 months earlier — had entered World War II when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Colorado USMC veteran Jim Blane, almost 101 years old, sat down with CPR News to detail his experience in one of the most ...

The historian examines how service members returning home from World War II were changed in ways undiagnosed and untreated, ...

Don Faurot, head football coach at the University of Missouri, enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II despite being ...

From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War ...

Stan Nelson served in the U.S. Navy for three years and participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and now he is being ...

For the American World War II veterans, all in their late 90s or early 100s, the event marked what will be one of the last times they gather to publicly relay what they endured and how it shaped them.