1975: The San Diego amphibious assault ship USS Okinawa helps evacuate refugees from the U.S. Embassy during the fall of ...

As the Pacific war crept ever closer to American shores, the U.S. military turned to technology to watch the skies. By late ...

Many Arkansans are familiar with Edward Payson Washbourne's 1856 painting called "The Arkansas Traveler." In succeeding years ...

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...

Churchill drank his whiskey and kept FDR up all night. That aggravated Eleanor (Roosevelt),” said Russell Levine, board ...

The victory over the Axis powers in World War II came at a cost beyond the lives of those who died or were injured in battle. Trauma was pervasive and often unacknowledged.

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

I was chatting with my mail carrier, Gerald Ellamar, this week. His son, Jase, is in his senior year at Pacific Lutheran ...

As a young man growing up in Hawaii, Daniel Inouye recognized Japanese planes bombing the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He knew his world was changing. As a Red Cross trainee at the ...

Eighty-three years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Harry David Bordner of Butte, who was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, has been officially accounted for.