Forced to eject from the damaged attack aircraft, he was soon captured by the enemy forces, interrogated and sent to Hỏa Lò Prison, better known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” Alvarez was both the first ...

On November 12, 1944, an attack similar to the one conducted on October 29 was launched. Dubbed Operation Catechism, it saw 32 modified Lancasters from the No. 617 and 9 Squadrons RAF, as well as a ...

The Aleutian Islands Campaign of II is often overlooked when discussions of the conflict occur. The Japanese invasion and ...

In April 2003, the USS Mason (DDG-87), an Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the US Navy.

In the 1950s, the burgeoning concept of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) technology more than intrigued military ...

In a final act of defiance, Roope ordered the heavily-damaged Glowworm to ram into Admiral Hipper, causing major damage to ...

Eighty years after the bloody Battle of Peleliu, the Japanese government plans to exhume over 1,000 war dead from the Pacific island. The country’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced ...