Nassau County is set to remember the end of World War II 80 years ago with a number of celebrations.
Mark Kinsler reflects on a cardboard tube that was a case for a mortar round and is reminded that the WWII generation didn't always tell their stories ...
Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to a news article.
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is home to the USS "Cobia," a 312-foot-long vessel that completed six war patrols during World ...
The following day, New Year’s Day 1945, Hartzell battled Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne. In the ...
Fortunately, the precedent for this kind of transformation occurred more than 70 years ago, when American private industry mobilized to win World War II. At the dawn of the Progressive Era ...
His courage in battle brought him the Congressional Gold Medal, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the ...
International Harvester R140 Woody Wagon was used to support the Minuteman Missile program during the Cold War.
The explosive was uncovered in the Sülz district of the west German city. "World War II bomb found in Sülz," the official account of the city of Cologne posted on X. "During construction work ...
In 1970, the USS Cobia was turned into a memorial for submariners in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a town known for the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, which built 28 submarines during World War II.
At the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, you can descend a steep staircase into the USS Cobia, a US Navy submarine that sank 13 ships and earned four battle stars in World War II.
The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all ...