Corporal Desmond Thomas Doss was the first conscientious objector to ever receive the Medal of Honor. A simple man with a noble heart, Doss single-handedly rescued 75 men from the fiercest battle in ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - A World War II veteran living in Parkersburg celebrated a major milestone. Friends and family ...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...

Virgil E. Frahm, a lifelong Nebraskan and veteran, was recognized for his service in World War II. The governor presented ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled USS Lexington sailors from the water during the Battle of the Coral Sea and ...

Japan's imperial couple commemorated compatriots who died in internment camps after the end of World War II during the first ...

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

Okinawa commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa with a solemn ceremony at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman ...

Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital ...