The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

The Essex-class aircraft carrier came about during World War II and was one of the first class of carriers to be outfitted ...

The remains of a United States Navy Ensign killed near Yap Island over the Pacific Ocean during World War II has finally ...

A 106-year-old WWII veteran reveals how his US Navy ship survived a Japanese kamikaze attack in the Pacific theater.

U.S. Navy aviator Ensign Howard Allen Holding’s family learned the 22-year-old was declared missing in action during World ...

Eight decades after he was shot down over the Pacific, Howard Allen Holding, a World War II pilot, was finally laid to rest Friday in Salt Lake City, concluding an 81-year mystery for his family.

John Barbaro, a World War II Navy veteran, celebrated his 101st birthday with friends and loved ones by his side. “I think it ...

Backed by a cornucopia of assets — namely the National World War II Museum’s vast oral history collection, season one of the ...

When Donald Walter Bergman was just a teenager his father, Herman Bergman, founded Bergman Nurseries in Quincy, Illinois all ...