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 ...

Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

On Jan. 21, 1945, San Diego newspapers reported a wide range of wartime activities as World War II neared its final months.

At treetop height over the Coral Sea, with fuel gauges bleeding toward empty and silence enforced by secrets that could not ...