WWII
A bullet creased a Navy heart at Pearl Harbor and sparked a WWII love story
During their nearly 50 years together, Alice Darrow was fond of saying she filled the bullet-sized hole in her Navy husband’s heart from the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor with love.
Guam jungle silently echoes long-ago guns
In a lot of Pacific War histories, Guam is swept aside and banished as insignificant.
How soon they forget, many might say.
Fourteen eyewitnesses to Japan’s 1945 surrender are expected in Hawaii for 75th anniversary
Fourteen U.S. veterans who witnessed Japan surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, are slated to attend a ceremony in Hawaii next month commemorating the historic event’s 75th anniversary.
‘Irresistible weapon’: Historians say American history oversimplifies atomic bombings on Japan
In spring and summer 1945, American politicians, generals and scientists pondered how to best use the terrible power of the atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project in New Mexico.
A new brew for the USS Indianapolis crew
Those who survived the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis tell some pretty incredible tales – unembellished accounts of four hellish days spent adrift in shark-infested waters, where 880 sailors died.
At long last, a final resting place for two men lost during WWII
Two men who served in the Army Air Forces during World War II were finally laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Wreckage of sunken WWII warship USS Indianapolis discovered, Navy announces
The Navy announced on Saturday that the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis was found in the Philippine Sea at a depth of more than 18,000 feet below the water's surface.