The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the Army Air Forces during World War II. The letters tell a story of the war ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

"That was the only time in my life he ever gave any real details, and I was in my 40s and had already done eight years of ...

During World War II, the battlefields of Europe were dominated by the fearsome German Panzers, striking fear into Allied forces with their formidable firepower and armor. In the heat of the war, the ...

USS New Orleans rejoins fleet after record-breaking repair job Her bow shot away in a battle with the Japanese in the ...

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

Visitors to the Kansas Aviation Museum got a close-up look at “That’s All, Brother,” a restored C-47 aircraft that led the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The World War II-era plane drew large crowds ...

Throughout July 2025, The National WWII Museum is offering half-priced general admission to Louisiana residents — the perfect ...

The American Heritage Museum in Hudson will host a World War II Pacific Theater reenactment on July 12 and July 13.