The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

This film tells the story of the P-38 Lightning, the radical American fighter Germany initially dismissed. It follows the ...

On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines launched Operation Detachment, the massive assault on Iwo Jima, beginning one of the Pacific War’s most brutal battles. Expected to last just a few days, the fight ...

From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War II’s Pacific Theater. What few remember is that the U.S. Army usually fought ...

Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo slammed into the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending the bow, two gun turrets and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, near Guadalcanal in the Solomon ...

(CNN) — The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. More than 80 years ago, the ...

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The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...