After Tarawa showed the terrible cost of attacking fortified islands head-on, American commanders increasingly turned to bypassing and neutralizing Japanese strongholds. Rabaul and Truk proved that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Lake Murray served as a training ground for American pilots during World War II, with B-25 bombers using the lake’s small islands for target practice in the early 1940s. Pilots ...

The island is lush, myriad shades of green made deeper by the effects of the morning’s rainfall. Just offshore, snorkelers float over beds of unbleached corals. Walking off the small wooden boat dock, ...

It was site of the only land battle fought on U.S. soil during World War II. And in proportional terms, it was one of the ...

Grace Rowett joined the U.S. Navy when she was 18 years old, during World War II. "I wanted to serve my country and I volunteered for the WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service," she ...

He was saved by a Jersey family after escaping a Nazi labour camp, but after the war he disappeared in the Soviet Union.

PHILADELPHIA — At a moment when institutions across the country are asking how to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is putting Jews at the ...

The United States is reportedly considering a review of Britain’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands, a move suggested as a punitive measure for a perceived lack of support in Donald Trump s ...

The US boarding of an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday shows Washington making good on a pledge to track Iran-linked vessels anywhere in the world, an extension of its blockade of Iranian ...

This is Antelope Reef, home to China’s latest artificial island — and one of its largest — in contested waters of the South China Sea. Satellite images show dozens of dredgers, which grind up the ...