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‘Take her down!’ WWII submarine skipper sacrificed with final order
Shot and clinging to the boat's bridge frame, submarine commander Howard W. Gilmore's gave his final order.
By Jon Guttman
Navajo Code Talkers museum is about $40 million shy of reality
Only three of the original Navajo Code Talkers are still alive.
DNA analysis helps identify remains of WWII veteran
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Alfred W. Pezzella will be buried in Bourne, Massachusetts.
Opinion
Barbenheimer: Unleashing the transformative power of the bombshell
The histories of nuclear energy as a World War II product and Barbie as a postwar creation are inextricably linked.
By Michael Doidge
WWII paratrooper famous for bringing beer to wounded troops dies at 98
Vincent Speranza, an American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades, died Wednesday at 98.
How a mother managed to save her son at Guadalcanal — from Ohio
"My mother had put her arms halfway around the world to save me," Elgin Staples later recalled.
A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family
Known as a Good Luck Flag, it was displayed for 29 years at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Leon Gautier, last member of French D-Day military commando unit, dies
Leon Gautier was the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion.
Meet the real WWII tanker who inspired Brad Pitt’s character in ‘Fury’
Lafayette G. Pool was the “ace of tankers.”
By Stephen L. Moore
Opinion
Two young soldiers and the fathers they became
A remarkable gift provided this author with new insight on her dad’s time in service during World War II.
By Paula G. Thornhill