The USS Massachusetts has joined the Navy fleet. Saturday's commissioning ceremony made the submarine the first named after ...

A retired Marine argues that primary source evidence proves three torpedo bomber squadron commanders deserve the nation's highest award for valor for their actions at Midway.

Hundreds of employees at one of the U.S. Navy’s biggest shipbuilding contractors have voted to approve a deal with Bath Iron ...

Description: In the waters off the coast of central Chile an encounter unfolded on 1 November 1914—the Battle of Coronel. The ...

Last week we saw the Japanese launch a surprise attack on the Russians at Port Arthur and the early stages of the ensuing ...

Lindsey Graham, US senator from Donald Trump’s Republican Party, calls for US Marines to take Iran’s oil hub, Kharg Island.

It is the latest in a series of alarms raised about the state of the UK armed forces, their effectiveness and ability to ...

CENTERVILLE - December 7, 1941, started out like any other Sunday for Freeman Johnson, then a 21-year-old from Waltham ...

A new headstone has been unveiled for one of the South's World War One heroes, whose grave had been unmarked for more than 60 ...

Airships carried out reconnaissance, mine-hunting and convoy escort missions in WW1 [Brian Turpin] A small housing estate in ...

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