The Kaiten torpedo was developed in Japan during World War II to sink Allied ships. It was a formidable weapon but suffered ...

In the closing days of World War II, the crew of the USS Indianapolis faced a horrific decision - burn aboard their sink ...

There isn't much Charley Pritchett hasn't done. Disc jockey, air traffic controller, publisher, university instructor ... and ...

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...

In an effort to end the Second World War, the United States made an irreversible decision, changing the course of history: ...

Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.

Japanese scientists using an improved method of analysis recently identified a third set of remains as likely those of an ...

Did you know that the Purple Heart is America’s oldest military award? In 1782, although the Revolutionary War was basically ...

Al Seidman's centenarian celebration will be Aug. 16 on the USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor, near the Coast Guard ...

As an actor in Hollywood, Paul Newman supported nuclear disarmament. As a sailor in World War II, he believed the atomic bomb ...

Rhode Island native John DeLeo served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is one of the last living witnesses to the ...