On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy ...

During World War II, the battlefields of Europe were dominated by the fearsome German Panzers, striking fear into Allied forces with their formidable firepower and armor. In the heat of the war, the ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110. Rose participated in the D-Day ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...

After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...

The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.

FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was ...

History is coming to life right here in the Capital Region as Downtown Troy turns into a movie set once again.

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre ...

Working on the Home Front, 1942–1945." exhibit features a collection of about 50 black-and-white photographs of wartime ...