The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) designates one day year as National POW MIA Recognition Day. In 2024 that day was Sept.

The room in the Commonwealth Journal office which stores old bound editions of our local newspaper has always been a bit of a ...

Deprived of food and unable to bear the intense hunger, detainees at a foreign internment camp in Nagoya during the closing ...

New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign ...

Mary Louise Nelson was born on September 19, 1924, and starting at 18 years old, worked at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica during World War II.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the first of nearly 1,000 formerly ...

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

With its military resources already stretched thin by its involvement in the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the U.S.

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 ...

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

A race is currently underway in Tokyo to determine the next president of Japan’s largest political party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The winner is likely to become Japan’s next and 101st ...

These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members ...