The Henry Ford in Dearborn has opened a special exhibition honoring the contributions of nearly 350,000 American women who ...

On a foggy December morning in 1917, three U.S. Navy submarines crept through the waters off the coast of San Diego. They ...

John Lee Levitow was born on November 1, 1945, to a Jewish family in Hartford, Connecticut. He originally intended to join ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

U.S. Navy gunner Loyce Deen became the only American airman in history to be buried at sea in his aircraft. After being killed during a bombing run in the Pacific, his body was so damaged that a ...

In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were Phyllis Priest, a beautiful hometown girl, and Cooper, a dashing Navy ...

Four crew members’ remains are beginning to return to their hometowns after a remarkable investigation by family members and a recovery mission involving elite Navy divers.

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over ...

“After 80 years, this great soldier has come home to rest,” Darrigan’s great niece, Susan Pineiro, told mourners at his ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...