China understands that raw industrial might, not the best possible platform, is the key to victory in a future great power conflict. The Pentagon does not.

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 ...

When the USS Squalus sank in 1939, dozens of sailors were trapped on the ocean floor with no proven way to reach them. This ...

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 ...

For centuries, ships vanished without warning—wrecked, sunk, or lost in silence. Then Marconi’s wireless telegraph gave them ...

America’s legendary 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy) earned its nickname “Bloody Hundredth” for the losses it sustained during strategic bombing missions over Europe in 1943. On its first mission on ...

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

Today, Mr Osman, who moved to Leicester in the 70s, is among few living survivors of the little-known tragedy that claimed ...

For at least five years, Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Russell Owen Chitwood remained misidentified amid the casualties from ...

One of the most successful bomber groups in World War Two operated from a lost Cambridgeshire airfield. Today, its site has ...

Smaller and less dramatic than the other two battles of the Marianas Campaign, Tinian nevertheless produced its share of ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...