Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...

Sitting inside his Grandview, Missouri, home of nearly 75 years, you might not guess that Ben Teevan turned 100 on ...

Three words always come to mind for the Rev. Dan Lawrence of Murrysville Alliance Church when he speaks to his flock as well ...

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch enemy ...

About 80 years ago, on 02 September 1945, World War II ended with the signing of documents on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor. In the USA, that is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Mark Hager President, Forks of the Yadkin and Davie County History Museum Inc.

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army.

Joel Boone became the stuff of legend among Marines and ultimately became the most decorated medical officer in the U.S.

B-2 Spirit stealth bombers launched from Whiteman AFB on a transatlantic round-trip sortie, supported by an E-6B Mercury flying from Ramstein. Let’s look at what happened. The appearance on Sept. 21, ...

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Friday morning, I learned that longtime Seymour resident Wayne Barker had died the previous day at the Copper Rock facility ...