The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

Eminent scholar Roger Moorhouse recently spoke to Military Times to discuss his book, “Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War," ...

Fred Whipple has long been recognized as a major contributor to our understanding of space and spaceflight—with contributions ...

The remains of a West Michigan native killed in the Pacific Theater during World War II have been identified using DNA and other technology. Staff with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said the ...

Introduction : "We were heavily armed, and we had crystals" -- From wire to wireless : the development-- and acceptance-- of tactical radio -- Crystal control-- the great gamble -- The Signal Corps ...

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the ...

Two 17th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during WWII have been discovered at an Ohio auction house. The artworks, believed to be by Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert, were seized from a Jewish ...

An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. At a former weapons dump site in the Baltic Sea, ...