Lewis enlisted in 1945 at the age of 17. He was at Iwo Jima, where his unit cleared caves of remaining Japanese soldiers. “They come out of the cave with butchers,” Lewis said.

The scarring in Navy SEAL Ryan Larkin's brain was not caused by large blasts from roadside bombs. Rather, he was wounded by repeated, low-level, blast pressure from his own weapons.

Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Boston at the age of 19. Once enlisted, he served aboard the U.S.S. St. Louis, which ...

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessie Maxey, a native of Carthage, serves aboard USS Jack H. Lucas, a U.S. Navy warship operating ...

The British prime minister said in a series of conversations that the tectonic shifts in America’s relationship with Europe ...

The then 19-year-old watched the first bombs drop on the harbor while stationed aboard the Dobbin-class destroyer tender USS ...

At the Friends of the Cross Christian Church in East Corning, Harry Hoyt was the center of attention. The World War II ...

I’ve taught about him now for four years in a row, and kids really do like learning about him.” She has come to rely on .gov ...

A WWII Corsair jet lands on the Intrepid for the first time, headlining a new permanent exhibit including rare crew-donated ...

A day has come to acknowledge and honor those who served in the Vietnam War, including the 58,479 Americans who never made it ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been described as an organization that keeps one inviolable promise — that the ...

A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...