In this week’s roundup of travel news: visiting the Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years after the World War II battle, the ...
Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...
The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II ...
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...
The soldiers served as a key part of U.S. intelligence, but nearly 50 years passed before their efforts became public.
Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
The history of Japanese dive bombers during World War II is often overshadowed by the dramatic successes of American air ...
Rick Shiomi’s new play “Secret Warriors,” now running at the History Theatre in St. Paul, explores the overlooked ...
Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center, where she was responsible for ...
Sworn to secrecy about the goings-on at Britain’s storied World War II decryption operation, she only later recounted the ...
The administration’s latest tactic for expediting deportations will trigger important test cases about the executive’s power.