I remember seeing the Japanese walking down the dock. The Marines were frisking all of them. We were top-side all over the place, hanging off the masts and over the side of our ship, anyplace ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — Officials in Muscatine are putting the final touches on their annual 9/11 tribute, a ceremony that will not only honor the lives lost in 2001 but also celebrate the 250th anniversary ...

LST 325 (the U.S. Navy didn’t start naming them until the Vietnam War) landed on Omaha Beach as part of “Operation Overlord,” ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

Restoration of two of the four runways at North Field is expected to be completed by 2027, while military engineers continue to repave roads and repair buildings. It was from North Field on Tinian, ...

LST-325 cruise director Ken Rupp says that for the decommissioned tank landing ship's 50-member crew, "we get by with a ...

History is littered with possibilities. The only thing historians love more than bickering among themselves is speculating ...

Launched too late for WWII, the Essex-class USS Princeton (CV-37) quickly earned distinction in Korea, flying hundreds of ...

The Second World War warrior who served on D-Day was inundated with well wishes from as far afield as New Zealand and ...

War hero Ronald Butcher, 98, has passed away months after opening up to The Mirror to urge the world to 'learn from the past' ...

The $8 billion missile defense system planned for Guam is the Department of War’s “largest investment” in the Pacific, the ...