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The bulldozer that broke Japan’s World War II island defenses

During World War II, a single bulldozer changed how battles were fought in the Pacific. This story follows Aurelio Tason, the ...

WWII Navy veteran Ira 'Ike' Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105

With Schab's passing, there remain only about a dozen survivors of the surprise attack, which killed just over 2,400 troops ...
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The carrier the US Navy chose to lose at Coral Sea

USS Lexington entered World War II as one of America’s most powerful carriers. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 ...
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30 Military Weapons That Seemed Perfect, Until They Entered Combat

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

One of the last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, Ira “Ike” Schab, dies at 105

Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, died at 105, leaving only about a dozen veterans from the 1941 attack alive. Schab, a 21-year-old Navy sailor serving on the USS ...