Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

This film uncovers the hidden story of the proximity fuse—one of World War II’s most crucial yet least recognized inventions.

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Today, the National WWII Museum is home to a myriad of ephemera showcasing the logistical feat of Christmas abroad, with ...

It’s not every day that a war movie manages to be both shattering and strangely serene. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line ...

A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...

In September 1942, U.S. Marines faced a decisive Japanese assault during the Guadalcanal campaign. On a narrow jungle ridge, ...

Calvin Leon Graham had to grow up fast. As the youngest of six kids from Crockett, Texas, he spent his childhood trying to ...

The Marine Corps Mechanized Museum will showcase its collection of vehicles and artillery used by the Marine Corps back to ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

The first case of missionaries martyred by the Japanese in World War II was reported last week. At Ruavatu on war-torn Guadalcanal four Roman Catholic missionaries of the Society of Mary and the ...

Making a brief appearance in this book is an airplane irreverently named “The Resurrection”, brought back from the dead at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal through combining parts from multiple wrecks ...