A lifelong lover of aviation, Voris hung model airplanes from his bedroom ceiling, devoured stories about the exploits of ...

The national Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed that Edward D. Johnson of Hurdsfield, North Dakota, was killed ...

Then Pearl Harbor happened ... “They told me years later that they were waving to the Japanese kamikaze pilots, and some of them were waving back,” said Truver, 79. Around the middle ...

The USS Utah was serving as a demilitarized target ship on the fateful date of December 7, 1941, during the infamous attack ...

World War II had plenty of devastating battles, but only one saw the most aircraft carriers sink into the Pacific. These are ...

Pearl Harbor has, like many such pivotal turning ... was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The bulk of the Japanese pilots were lost with their carriers or shot down in combat.

If you don’t mind, dear reader, I’m going to treat you as someone who already knows that on Aug. 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., ...

PORT GAMBLE, Wash. — Seaman First Class Ralph Henry Keil was laid to rest on Wednesday, 83 years after his death. Keil was ...

Keil was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma Dec. 7, 1941, during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing America ... and by the age of 20 he had already gotten a pilot's license.