DPAA has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the WWII sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

The Bataan Death March was a brutal WWII war crime. Learn about the horrific ordeal and New Mexico's unique connection.

Daylight saving time is the period between March and November when most Americans set their clocks forward to gain more ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918 with the Standard Time Act. While not all states participate ...

In 1942, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal were being erased by unseen Japanese forces in the jungle. Lieutenant Colonel William Whaling answered with a radical idea: small hunter teams ...

After World War II, the U.S. faced a monumental logistics problem across the entire Pacific: getting rid of nine million tons ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere, each intended to ...