April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

The second is what will it take to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? As old as history, winning by not losing has been called the ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

During the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was stationed as a radar picket directly in the path of incoming Japanese aircraft. That morning, a massive wave of kamikaze pilots ...

In his honor, a local youth football league was established, named Lynvets – Lyn for Lynch and Vets for Veterans – a tribute ...

Alexander Dumas of Knoxville, TN, was bom on March 8, 1928 and died on February 12, 2026 at 97 years old. Born in Detroit, MI, Dumas enlisted in the United States Navy in 1945 at the age of 17 and ...

IN BRIEF When Brigadier General Wilmer F. Lucas retired from the United States Army Reserve, he did so as a war hero who had led the Harlem Hellfighters ...

Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped archipelago in the western Pacific. Once known as the "Bridge of Ten Thousand ...

The 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge tells the story of Desmond Doss, an unlikely war hero. A devout Christian and stringent member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he wholeheartedly adhered to the ...

The USS Kidd faced its darkest hour on April 11, 1945, off Okinawa. After fighting off three air raids that day, a lone Japanese kamikaze struck the destroyer at 2:09 PM. The pilot first aimed for USS ...