Discover the amazing story of Douglas SBD Dauntless 2106—the only plane to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and return to fight at the Battle of Midway.

Last week you read about the Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942, and forced transfer of approximately 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war (POWs) by the Japanese Imperial Army ...

Kaga began as a battleship hull repurposed into an aircraft carrier and became a veteran strike platform by 1941, carrying a large air group and heavy gun armament for a carrier. The transcript ...

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

Back in the day, Col. Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune led the isolationist parade. Even after Pearl Harbor. When the rest of the country was demanding taking the war to the Japanese, the Trib kept ...

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

Image by Architect of the Capitol To attain independence, the Americans would have to win the Revolutionary War against Great Britain, which previously governed the 13 colonies. The war lasted from ...

In June 1942, during World War II, the Battle of Midway transformed the Pacific War in a matter of minutes. Japan’s elite carrier force—Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu—was destroyed despite months of ...

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Fox television newsman Bret Baier has continued his magnificent American history series with the new biography, “To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower” (Mariner ...

On this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway — regarded as one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan — came to an end. The Battle of Midway was an Allied naval ...

Newly released close-up videos and images of three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the Battle of Midway are reviving haunting memories for the two surviving U.S. veterans who were aboard ...