A slab of whitish-gray spalled concrete looking like cast-off debris from a neglected highway project sits along a street next to the National World War II Museum in downtown New Orleans...
PT boats played a “decisive role” in the Allied victory in the Pacific during World War II, says Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his memoirs. Despite MacArthur’s claim, the legacy of the PT boat has proven to be somewhat more complex than he suggests.
One hundred fifty years ago, an indecisive clash between two ironclad ships changed how war would be fought at sea for the next 80 years...
Had Paul Revere not made the midnight ride for which he was immortalized by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow some 85 years later...
Shiloh can be translated as 'a place of rest,' but fore two days in April 1862 it was anything but that...
Nestled on a shady plaza amid the parking lots and commercial buildings of downtown San Antonio, the Alamo is today the most popular historic site in Texas. The tale of Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie dying in defense of freedom...
The reason Alaska is not part of Canada has much to do with the Battle of Sitka...
In December 1961, the U.S. Navy transport ship USNS Core steamed up the Mekong River and docked in the heart of Saigon...
During World War II, I served as an aircraft electrical mechanic with the 305th Airdrome Squadron, 5th Air Force in the Pacific. From October 1944 until June 1945, our unit...