In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the ...

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 ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Mismatched tops, laminated necks, the ravages of WWII meant the first-year Southern Jumbo was a moveable feast – but it is a ...

On Friday, the remains of Ell Simantz, a World War II soldier from Grand Haven, were laid to rest. His homecoming came ...

Deep-sea explorers made a discovery of an 82-year-old shipwreck in which over 1,000 people died during World War II, according to The Associated Press. The World War II-era Japanese transport ship, ...

For almost two years in the 1940s, the federal government exercised strict control over such weather reports, a World War II-era precaution that caused unexpected havoc on the home front, including on ...

A Japanese ship transporting Allied prisoners of war sank in 1942, claiming the lives of over 1,000 people, most of whom were Australian. Now — eight decades later — the wreckage has been located ...

The remains of U.S. Army Pvt. William E. Calkins were laid to rest Saturday in Hillsboro, Ore., nearly 82 years after he died in a POW camp in the Philippines. Calkins was buried at Fir Lawn Memorial ...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A World War II pilot who was killed 82 years ago will be buried with full military honors Wednesday morning in his hometown. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan Winstead Corson, 27, of ...