Some of the re-enactments included interpreters trying to recruit for the union army and a live march and drill with soldiers ...

Ravaged plantations. Houses burned to the ground. A father’s dying words for his son to avenge him. Hilton Head may not have been the site of a major Revolutionary War battle, but it was the site of ...

U.S. Marine veteran Henry “Hank” Long, who served in World War II, looks on as an American flag is folded for him during a ...

Muri flew one of four twin-engine bombers that took off from Midway Island on June 4, 1942, to attack a powerful Japanese fleet that was preparing to invade the U.S. military outpost about 1,100 ...

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

To the Southwest was the invasion task force with a group of cruisers and transports carrying 5,000 troops ordered to invade Midway, destroying what would be left of the 4,000 dug-in marines.

The attack by the Japanese Navy on Midway Island marked its last in the Pacific Theater of operations and occurred 1.5 years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s chief naval strategist during World War II, was a gambler who “won large sums on poker, bridge, shogi—Japanese chess—and the Japanese game of stones known as ...

America used to use the Midway Atoll as an unsinkable aircraft carrier, and it proved to be pivotal during WWII. Here's why and what role it served.

Obama is in the midst of a 10-day foreign-and-domestic trip that will focus largely on environmental issues. In Lake Tahoe, Nev. on Wednesday, Obama linked conservation and climate change, and ...

The World War II military base on Midway Atoll including an airfield on Eastern Island and more facilities on Sand Island, across the channel. U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons ...