The Indiana War Memorial has a new exhibit on the USS Indiana BB-58, a ship that played a crucial role in the Pacific ...

Ted Lombarski, a sergeant in the 16th’s F Company, recalled: ...

As dawn was breaking in Europe 81 years ago, members of what journalist Tom Brokaw would call The Greatest Generation boarded ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

By STEVE PFARRER For the Gazette Stephen Platt, who teaches 19th and 20th century Chinese history at the University of ...

Japan learned of an Allied invasion in the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal and quickly dispatched Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa ...

Sergeant John Basilone and his unit were facing relentless fire from the Japanese forces during the Battle for Henderson Field in October of 1942 when suddenly he realized that the weapons they were ...

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone’s extraordinary heroism in World War II, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, stands as a powerful ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

In June 1944, the parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Alfred A. Ranio of Olean received a dreaded notice from the U.S. War Department.

On Memorial Day, we remember the likes of John Basilone to honor his sacrifice and to remind us of the blood and toil that ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.