Some of the most important battles in American military history were fought during World War II. From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the carrier showdown at Midway and the brutal island ...

Battles often mark turning points that extend beyond the purely military sphere: they influence political balances, redraw borders, transform societies, and leave lasting traces in memory. In this ...

Two months after World War I began, French pilot Sgt. Joseph Frantz and his gunner, Louis Quénault, shot down a German plane near Reims, recording what is considered to be the first official aerial ...

War is never pretty, but there can be levels even to the cruelty and ugliness of war, with some almost inconceivably horrendous. Such levels can be measured by one macabre metric: the number of deaths ...

Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died. But top Ukrainian military leaders say the ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 that soared into combat in 1944 marked a revolutionary leap in aviation history as the first jet-powered fighter aircraft. As one of the oldest fighter jets, it set the stage ...

Some of the top experts across the Army, Navy, and Marines rate military battle scenes in movies and television for realism. Andy Stumpf, who spent over 17 years as a Navy SEAL, rates underwater ...

The world's navies have been using aircraft carriers since 1918, but it wasn't until World War II that the powerful vessels came into their own. Before carriers, navies revolved around battleships, ...

During Dave Herman’s more than 25 years with the Lockport Township Park District, he has seen the Civil War Days event become World War II Days and then Military History Weekend. Now the Lockport ...