The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...
Of the 16 million men and women who served in the American armed forces during World War II, less than 1% are still alive ...
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 ...
During his time in the Navy, veteran Richard Young captured some of the most raw and powerful moments of World War II. Young ...
In 1949, Orchard Field Airport in Chicago, Illinois, was renamed O’Hare International Airport in O’Hare’s honor. The site ...
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 ...
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 ...
DuPont was one of the largest munitions suppliers to the allied forces during World War I, even before 1918. The company was ...
Since 1918, Memorial Park in Fort Wayne has served as a tribute to soldiers from Allen County who fought and died in World ...
Canada’s veterans have a conflicted relationship with Remembrance Day, an idea that may be shifting as older war vets leave ...
The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said.
Newton Abbot’s Coombeshead Academy students worked with a local sculptor to create a moving WWII tribute, bringing history to ...