In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

While working in a mortuary in San Francisco in early 1941, Voris noticed a Navy recruiting poster and enlisted ...

In the early 1940s, North Kingstown stepped into America’s efforts to fight in World War II. Now NPS is recognizing the ...

The grounded Philippine warship Sierra Madre marks Manila's territorial claim near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the ...

The Corsair's "Whistling Death" nickname may or may not have been apocryphal. But its deadly efficacy was certainly not in ...

The United States Air Force is restoring the World War II (WWII) airfield from where the atomic bombings in Japan were ...

The US Air Force is restoring North Field, the World War II airbase on Tinian Island that launched atomic bombings on Japan.

The crash, which caused about $1 million in damage (roughly $17.5 million in 2024), represented the first time that an ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

The only thing Thomas Ramm has left from his time on Iwo Jima is a tattered map of the remote Pacific island. That, and a ...

The Navy commissioned the fast-attack Virginia-class submarine USS New Jersey (SSN 796) in a traditional ceremony held ...

Made out of torpedo shells and pulled by tanks, the improvised infantry tactic saw heavy used during fighting in Italy.