Between 1939 and 1945, over 30 countries participated in World War II, mobilizing around 100 million military personnel. The ...

Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

Billy Mitchell, a World War I air power commander, warned battleships were obsolete and future wars would be decided in the ...

Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...

World War II ended generations ago, yet many of its weapons are still firing in today’s conflicts. Heavy machine guns, ...

Ralph and two sisters survive.] I went to work on our farm at 4:30 a.m. on school days. I milked 10 cows by hand. I’d come ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

The United States Air Force maintains a complex network of installations designed to project air power and support global ...

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

Vicksburg is a river city. For 200 years, the ebb and flow of the waters of the Mississippi, Yazoo and Big Black rivers have ...