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Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

A young sailor survived the surgery to remove the bullet that struck his heart during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and ...

Faces were pale and eyes wide as the American sailors on the deck of the destroyer USS William D. Porter saw the ghost flying ...

The 1944 game delivered a brief respite from the far-flung battles across the globe, drawing attention back to a good, ...

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

The United States is confronting an existential threat -- but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the ...

Lt. Morton Sher, 22, died on August 20, 1943, during a mission in central China. For decades, his remains were considered ...

The American flag should be flown at half-staff Sunday, Dec. 7, for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Flags across Michigan and ...

Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow ...