O n October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast of China. The submarine was destroyed by its own torpedo, which slammed into the port side while launching an attack on a ...

After joining the Brazilian Navy's fleet, it carried Allied troops and supplies along the Brazilian coast during World War II. On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 launched a torpedo at ...

Here are the best World War II movies to educate and entertain you. Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel ...

That number includes as many as 100,000 civilians, 110,000 Japanese troops and Okinawa conscripts, and more than 12,000 American and allied troops, according to the National World War II Museum in ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.