Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.
Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...
In December 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, a small U.S. garrison on Wake Island found itself directly in the path of Japan’s Pacific expansion. With limited defenses and only a handful of ...
On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to ...
On Jan. 21, 1945, San Diego newspapers reported a wide range of wartime activities as World War II neared its final months.
Collecting snow for water at home; sleeping in gloves, coats and hats; heating bricks on gas stoves for warmth; erecting tents indoors - Kyiv residents are doing everything they can to survive the ...