The Veteran of the Month program honors deceased veterans, unaccounted POWs and MIAs, and certain merchant mariners who ...

Its story, from U.S. Navy service to Japanese capture and back again, makes it a powerful symbol of the Pacific War’s ...

This June 1944 cover image shows a Navy Seabee driving a bulldozer out from the hold of a landing craft onto the beach of an ...

The bomber aircraft never returned from a mission in 1943, with all four of its crew members killed in action.

In May of 1946, the United States Navy gave one of their own battleships, the USS Stewart, a burial at sea—sinking it in a ...

Fred Sarkis, the son of a Lebanese immigrant, controlled his own destiny in life, friends and family remember.

Peter Chappetto, an Army infantry officer who died in World War II, has no grave near his boyhood home in Astoria, Queens, ...

World War II saw the creation of some of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. Among them were single-engine fighters ...

WWII Navy Ace and Hellcat pilot Donald M. McPherson flew in the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum's SB2C Helldiver, joining a ...

Ultimately, no one did pet cemeteries like the Americans though, who by the 1920s had over 600, more than the rest of the world combined. A boneyard for New York City animals was built in Hartsdale ...

Japanese troops successfully disarmed and removed a suspected World War II-era bomb from Okinawa prefecture’s capital city ...

Explosive ordnance technicians on Guam recently removed and detonated a U.S. bomb base fuse and two unexploded shells ...