In 1943, a battered B-17 Flying Fortress sat in a scrapyard, written off after repeated combat damage and burdened with the ...

In March 1943, during World War II, American B-25 bombers flew directly toward a heavily defended Japanese convoy at just ...

Pinned down and with casualties mounting, Pvt. Wilson Watson took matters into his own hands to savagely take out enemy entrenchments.

The American recapture in World War II of Corregidor Island from the Japanese garrison in the Philippines began with a daring, highly risky parachute drop by the 503rd Parachute Regiment on Feb. 16, ...

They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

Since those distant days, the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed on Cuba has only expanded and hardened, building a monstrous global network that—through the illegal ...

Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off mainland defenses to incoming B-29 raids, and establish an emergency landing ...

Today, our Nation commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima—a monumental struggle that advanced the cause of victory in the Pacific ...

Two American pilots, Fabio Espinal Nunez of New Jersey and Brad Schlenker of Illinois, have been detained in Guinea since ...

This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...