In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...

Airfields that played a pivotal yet fleeting part of America's campaign against the Japanese Empire in World War II are now ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 made a stop at a private Union Pacific Event on Wednesday. 25 "Big Boys" were built during World War II, but only eight survived. No. 4014 is the only one in operation ...

The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of ...

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...

Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a victory over the Japanese fleet showed that U.S. naval forces had teeth.

A cenotaph for Tacoma-raised Ralph Keil was placed at Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood by his parents after his he was killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. His remains have only ...

A group of Wood County elementary students visited a piece of history in Marietta Friday morning. Three classes of fifth ...

"It's an honor. A great, great honor," Mike Shaffer said of the military honors it took his great-uncle 80 years to receive.

ROCHELLE, Ill. (WIFR) - The walk takes longer than an hour from a distant parking spot to the Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” ...

As the U.S., China and other powers vie for strategic influence in Pacific Island militaries, the army chief of New Zealand ...