William Henry Pratt was 19 and served on the USS Nevada during the 1941 attack. His brother Basil Pratt was also on the ship and survived.

Moffett Field Historical Society is in the process of restoring the control car of a World War II-era K-class blimp.

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman arrives at the NATO Marathi Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Crete, during a port visit on ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...

Levi was born to Carl and Rasminne Larson on Oct. 15, 1924, at their home in Forest Grove Township. During World War II, Levi served in the Navy as a welder repairing ships in Hawaii from 1943 to 1946 ...

Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

World War II veteran Edward Jasonowicz turns 100 today. The Norway native was honored with two celebrations last weekend for ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

Five more suspects have been identified by police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients at scandal-hit Gosport War Memorial Hospital, taking the total to 29. An independent police ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.