USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

On a historical impact per square mile basis, few places on earth rival the island of Tinian. Almost completely forgotten ...

On March 2, 1945, the 5th Marine Division was embroiled in the battle for Hill 362. The division would fight on Iwo Jima ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

Video of a US submarine sinking an Iranian warship looked "remarkably similar" to a 1945 US submarine attack, a World War II expert said.

Finance and sales outfit Global Constellation has closed a raft of key international deals on Daniel Fahre’s World War II drama “Battle of Oslo.” The film sold in North America (Samuel Goldwyn Films), ...

Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese launched their devastating surprise attack on the American Naval Base in Pearl ...

Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese launched their devastating surprise attack on the American Naval Base in Pearl ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Anderson Giles, a retired University of Maine at Presque Isle art professor who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to preserving the history of World War II and led ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...