On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Gilbert A. Rauh, who was killed in action in 1943, will be interred Monday at Arlington ...

A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110. Rose participated in the D-Day ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...

After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...

The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.

Jefferson Parish dedicates a street to WWII veteran Lincoln Brennan, renaming Mandarin Street to "Lincoln Brennan Way." ...

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre ...

History is coming to life right here in the Capital Region as Downtown Troy turns into a movie set once again.