The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is ascendant at a time when U.S. and ...

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

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

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 ...

His conduct at Guadalcanal would be more than enough valor ... on the first day of the invasion of Iwo Jima, a godforsaken hunk of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific.

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.

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

After Guadalcanal, Bob served in intelligence. He revealed very little, even to his family, about the years that led to his participation in the 1945 invasion of Okinawa and its three-month bloodbath.

A.P.’s Bill Hippie reported from Guadalcanal: “Aerial observers reported ... the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were ...