No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

DPAA confirmed the identification of Seaman 1st Class Clyde McMeans, assigned to the USS California when he was killed. He ...

He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s ...

EXCLUSIVE: An RAF war hero who flew 50 night bombing missions over Hitler's Germany has told the Express why Trump's attack ...

Change is constant at O’Hare airport, from Orchard Place farmland to a military aircraft plant, to building the new “O’Hare Global Terminal.” ...

In March 1943, Allied air forces meticulously planned and coordinated a strategic assault in the South West Pacific. Their target: Japanese shipping in the Bismarck Sea. The build-up was intense, and ...

On Feb. 23, 1942, 69 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese submarine I-17 appeared off the coast north of Santa ...

The Devastator bomber became a footnote in World War II history, and no vestige of the plane is found in any museum or ...

Mae Krier of Levittown is preparing to celebrate her 100th birthday on March 21, which is also National Rosie the Riveter Day ...

World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people ...

The XB-41 Liberator tried to turn a B-24 bomber into a heavily armed escort gunship, but weight and speed limits doomed the ...