The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis meta tragic fate during the last days of World War II.
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The .50 caliber machine guns of the battleship USS Pennsylvania unloaded 65,000 rounds of ammunition on December 7, 1941.   More »

To neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul, American troops would need to take Bougainville in the Soloman Islands.   More »

LST-449 and the future president of the United States survived a massive Japanese attack in the Solomon Islands.   More »

The savage final land battle between “the eagle and the sun” was America’s longest and bloodiest campaign in the Pacific Theater.   More »

Igor Sikorsky demonstrated the practicality of the helicopter to the U.S. Army in 1940.   More »

Japanese attacks on airfields in the Marianas to counter U.S. B-29 bombing raids on the mainland would eventually lead to the invasion of Iwo Jima.   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 »

By Nathan N. Prefer
They knew they were coming. They had been waiting for days, expecting at any minute to be rushed to battle stations, but for days nothing much had happened. Veterans of naval battles at the Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, and the Philippine Sea couldn’t explain it. Where   More »

With a good rate of fire and a hefty punch, the 4.2-inch chemical mortar was an unsung weapon of the U.S. Army in World War II.   More »