Led by Medal of Honor recipient Joe Foss, VMF-115 compiled an outstanding combat record.   More »

A powerful typhoon wreaked havoc with the U.S. Navy’s task force 38 in December 1944. It would be followed shortly after by a second.   More »

By David Dean Barrett
More than seventy years after the fact, the use of atomic bombs by the United States in the final days of World War II remains one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. During his speech announcing the destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb,   More »

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington waged a gallant war in the Pacific against the Imperial Japanese Navy.   More »

Battered by devastating kamikaze strikes off Okinawa, the crew of the destroyer USS Laffey fought heroically to save their lives and their ship.   More »

The first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor is the focus of the new Mel Gibson film coming out this November.   More »

In the opening hours of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, an American Patrol Plane as unable to transmit the location of the Japanese fleet.   More »

Since the 20th Century, capping or crossing the t has been a time-honored naval strategy that was critical in the U.S. victory at Surigao Strait.   More »

The secret of American victory in World War II was quantity and quality.   More »

At the Battle of Surigao Strait, a line of American battleships, raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, decimated a Japanese task force.   More »