Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – In the summer of 1942, an ambitious special project was launched by the Army to educate the American public about its ongoing efforts as it recognized its six-month ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

The U.S. Army K-9 Corps, which trained more than 10,000 dogs to serve several branches of the American military in World War II, began barking orders to its four-legged foot soldiers on this day in ...

The federal government enacted nationwide Daylight Saving Time amid the darkest depths of wartime fears on this day in history, Feb. 9, 1942. "Passed by Congress and signed into law by President ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

As America marks Veterans Day, think back to 80 years ago. It is just after the devastating December 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the United States into World War II.

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...

BACK of the war in the Pacific lies the question not so much of what we think of the Chinese, the Indians, and the millions of Southeastern Asia, but of what they think of us. For the first time in ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.