As Japanese guns on Peleliu blazed, 19-year-old Matt Gutman steered his boatload of Marines toward the beach and hoped he ...

The location was a “heavily sedimented” extinct volcano in the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, about 4,700 miles southwest ...

Kingwood native and former West Virginia University mine engineering student were laid to rest next to those of his parents ...

They confounded Japanese military cryptologists during World War II and participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and ...

Nearly two and a half centuries since its founding, the Marine Corps remains essential and ready for the future, its ...

At Jemez Pueblo, nestled among the red canyons and mountains northwest of Albuquerque, there was excitement about the ...

Tens of thousands of prisoners of war captured by Australian and Allied troops during WW2 were shipped to Australia. For ...

This month we are featuring profiles of courage; veterans who went above and beyond to ensure our nation's freedom.

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...

On December 8, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Congress did so, and the president signed the declaration of war the same day. On December 11, Nazi Germany and ...

The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...