The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

1 of 7 | A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

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

As a photojournalist, visual storyteller, and founder of the nonprofit organization WWII Veterans History Project, I’ve spent ...

Former communist dictator Enver Hoxha left Albania covered by thousands of bunkers. Now the once-isolated country is giving ...

U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach ...

The Armistice ending the Great War was slated to go into effect at 11:00 AM on November 11, 1918. Just an hour and a half ...

In 1949, Orchard Field Airport in Chicago, Illinois, was renamed O’Hare International Airport in O’Hare’s honor. The site ...

The 2,400-acre "Elko tract" was transformed into a dummy Air Force base to trick possible incoming bomber pilots into ...

KENT - World War I memorials are found throughout the state, but Richard Franklin Donahue laments that so many citizens are unaware of where they are in their own hometowns. His mission is to change ...

Amid the bright flowers at The Californian, a small senior center in Woodland lies a living treasure of American history: ...

An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San Diego on a long-term loan from the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. The 78-year-old aircraft ...