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Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to...

A menacing nor'easter pummeled the SS Pendleton on Feb. 18, 1952, causing the oil tanker to be broken in two a mile off the...

Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the...

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A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded...

Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion that, by some estimates, killed 20...

James P. Connor received the Medal of Honor after leading his troops through an impenetrable wall of mortars.

Twenty-nine of the 44 men who have served as our nation's commander-in-chief have military backgrounds themselves.

Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and...