On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in ...

A historian and the American Battle Monuments Commission will pay tribute Thursday to two brothers from Gary, who were killed during World War II and are buried side-by-side in France.

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

Private Richard Gordon Wright, a U.S. Marine killed in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II, has been identified after 80 ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

July 10 has been a day marked by pivotal events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the most impactful events to occur on July ...

During World War II, the skies above Europe and the Pacific were filled with more than just aircraft. Anti-aircraft guns—flak—poured tens of thousands of explosive shells into the air every day, ...

On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the German Luftwaffe launched attacks on southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.) In 1509, theologian ...

WSAZ’s Hannah Hayes has the story of a World War II veteran who’s our latest Hometown Hero. At 102 years old, U.S. Army ...

The sacrifice of a pair of Salem brothers killed while serving in World War II was honored in a presentation at the Memorial ...