It was the middle of the night and an eerie tension hung at the German-occupied Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire. Over 5,000 German forces, alert and battle-ready, prowled the port’s precincts, their ...

U.S. generals and world leaders alike are ringing alarm bells. Escalating global tensions, advanced military tech, and ...

In the spirit of Rosie the Riveter, women welders and other tradeswomen are leading an effort to fix up a World War II-era ship. The image of Rosie has become iconic, as she flexes a fearsome bicep ...

USS LST 325, the last fully operational World War II Landing Ship Tank in the United States, will make a stop in Muscatine September 11 – 15. The 328-foot-long ship left its home port in Evansville, ...

On September 2, 1945, the Second World War ended when Japan officially surrendered. Today, on the 80th anniversary, the physical legacy of the conflict remains etched into land and sea. Nowhere is ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

WASHINGTON — A World War II sailor presumed lost at sea when his ship hit a mine off the coast of Normandy, France, during D-Day operations will be commemorated at a family funeral with full military ...

The US military advantage is eroding as China catches up, and the US democratic advantage is also being eroded by ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that will change the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War, a White House official told CNN. It’s a ...

The huge military parade through central Beijing on Wednesday was a deliberately fearsome display of weaponry designed to send a message that Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order with China at the ...