Rose DeJesus, 97, could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last saw him.

Recently I read a book titled "Hank and Jim," which told of the lifelong friendship between actors Henry Fonda and Jimmy ...

Containers are the basis of goods movement globally, available in numbers and able to fit on a wide range of vessel types and ...

Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...

A Georgia native, he was among the famed Tuskegee Airmen who helped pave the way amid World War II for the desegregation ... as he blazed his own trail as a U.S. Navy aviator. “I am here because of ...

It was on that battleship’s deck that Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end on Sept ... which is crossing the ...

After the war, Silberman resumed his studies and graduated from medical school at 26. Silberman was able to finish his studies at Johns Hopkins because of the 1944 GI Bill, which transformed access to ...

When I got through those years, I had a list of 70 local young men killed in WWII. The number was overwhelming to me, as Chico was a town of only 21,000. Many later appeared on my list of top ...

It’s been 80 years since Marie West of Monument served in the Navy, but now, at the age of 101, she’s getting the recognition she deserves.

The high loss of life aboard battleships like the Bismarck and Yamato in WWII underscores ... for any navy to build big gun ...

The Montana-class battleships, authorized in 1941 but never built, were intended to be the last of their kind for the U.S.

The US Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, has been commissioned.DDG 122 became ...