In response, the Navy began forming specialized demolition teams in 1942. These early units were created from experienced ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...

In the final months of World War II, Japanese kamikaze attacks threatened to overwhelm the U.S. Navy. This story follows ...

The USS Saufley served in many WWII missions, conducting anti-shipping sweeps, escorting reinforcements, and providing shore ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Last year Russia decided to abandon its brigade-based army organization and return to a division-based system. So far the Russian Pacific Fleet has upgraded its 155 th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade to ...

World War II veteran and local resident, Ernest “Ernie” Zubalik, turns 100 years old on Monday. Ernest Zubalik grew up in ...

The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...

Falke served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and won the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial heroism. But he insisted ...

The Saving Private Ryan star will present the series with more than 20 episodes exploring the origins and turning points of ...

The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2013. When my book group elected to read “A Higher Call,” about a World War II encounter in the ...