The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, fought on August 24-25, 1942 during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a crucial carrier ...

U.S. Navy pilots flew the TBD-1 Devastator against the Japanese in the 1942 Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Developed by Douglas Aircraft Co. in 1937, the Devastator was the Navy’s first ...

A historian will lecture on the Battle of Peleliu, where US Marines suffered their largest number of casualties in WWII.

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

Eighty years after some of World War II’s fiercest battles, unexploded bombs still endanger communities across the Solomon Islands. The HALO Trust and local authorities are racing to clear tens of ...

Top-secret World War II maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 (over $30,000) - after being found in a cardboard box. The collection - giving ...

Nearly 80 years after Imperial Japan's surrender ended World War II, the number of American veterans who served in the conflict has fallen to around 66,000, according to the Department of Veterans ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

As President Trump attempts to help negotiate an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, questions have grown about what will happen to Ukrainian territory claimed by the Kremlin and held by Russian forces.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...