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

During World War II, aircraft carriers revolutionized naval warfare, and several stood out for their significant ...

The 57,500-ton battleship New Jersey, which once shot down 20 Japanese warplanes and pounded the beaches of Okinawa and Iwo ...

Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the enemies fought with fierce determination. Surviving soldiers and civilians would describe ...

Get ready to witness history! The Navy will christen the USS New Jersey, a state-of-the-art Virginia-class fast attack ...

Midway through his junior year, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving in the medical corps in Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines on theUSS Lubbock, returning to veterinary school in 1946.

Japanese strategists predicted correctly that Americans would assault the islands of Iwo Jima and then Okinawa, where the Japanese hoped fierce resistance would force a negotiated peace.

It was the end of the Battle for Iwo Jima, but the experience and massive casualties, along with those suffered at the following Battle of Okinawa, forced the US to think twice about invading the ...

At age 100, Joe Gompers feels that his time serving in World War II was “the greatest experience of my life.” “You can’t ...

In Berlin, Harry Truman caused many an eyebrow to be raised when he declared: “There is not one piece of territory . . . that we want out of this war.” Last week, in his address to the nation ...

where in company with Ernie Pyle and other tested correspondents he observed at close hand the assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Pershing. On larger issues: In many ways the retaking of the Philippines was, pace Herman, a costly detour; the Marianas, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima were equally bloody conquests, but one could at ...