Sailors from the USS Fort Worth laugh with Navy World War II veteran Elsie Kitty Rippin after they surprised her with cake ...

The Russian naval voyage came after the Russian military sent four bombers, which are capable of launching nuclear missiles, ...

Workers from Meals on Wheels and sailors from the combat ship came together to celebrate the 101-year-old World War II veteran.

The undated image, which was published in the US Center for Countermeasures’ annual report this month, captured the warfighting laser technology being shot from the USS Preble destroyer in ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

“ By the afternoon, only one Japanese carrier remained: Hiryū. It’s believed Best’s bomb was one of four to strike the vessel, making him the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese aircraft ...

Harry Stewart Jr. recorded three victories in one day and won the first-ever 'Top Gun' contest for military pilots.

Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months for four years); now it takes the United States a decade to commission a ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.