WWII
Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale
Just past midnight July 30, 1945, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck the USS Indianapolis with almost 1,200 people aboard.
WWII human remains, artifacts discovered on Ie Shima during Okinawa film shoot
A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, marking the first such discovery on the island in more than 20 years, according to Japanese officials.
DNA collection nears mark needed to exhume USS Arizona unknowns from Hawaii cemetery
A Virginia real estate agent is close to finishing a self-appointed mission aimed at collecting enough DNA to meet the threshold for exhuming dozens of unknown Pearl Harbor victims who were serving aboard the USS Arizona.
Visiting veterans remember WWII Battle of Okinawa on 80th anniversary
World War II veterans returned to Okinawa to commemorate the “devastating” battle that lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945.
Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.
Air Force engineers uncover WWII-era runways for new purpose in the Pacific
Engineers are on track to finish clearing vegetation from an airfield on Tinian by May, paving the way for the restoration of at least two of its four World War II-era runways, according to the Air Force.
One of the last US survivors of Pearl Harbor dies at 102
Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La., at the age of 102.