One of the world’s most famous birds has returned to her nesting site. Wisdom, the 75-year-old albatross is known as the ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

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The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall— and its more-than-200 servicemen went down at the hands of the Japanese military on March 1, 1942, during World ...

During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

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The USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier that saw service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ...

The Hoosier Lottery sold $568 million in tickets between July and October, which was $42.7 million, or 8.1%, greater than the ...

Six years after El Pueblo motel opened its doors, with the country plunged into World War II the motel’s proprietor devised a plan to enlist Navajo men into the U.S. Marines Corps.