The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...
Ever wondered how the U.S. brought smaller planes overseas during World War II? It was definitely more tedious work than ...
Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...
Pins -- bound for a new life in the United States -- never saw his family again. After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II ...
In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop an insignia for the military unit. What Disney devised was an image of Mickey Mouse riding a goose, with a Navy ...
The Garden Club in the Madison County city had a ceremony on April 5 2025 to unveil the memorial's new location in City Park ...
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...