As Allied forces relentlessly pushed German and Japanese armies back during World War II, the United States War Department faced a critical, impossible problem: how to destroy the famously resilient, ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

Satellite imagery reviewed by Newsweek this week showed Chinese-led work to revive a World War II-era runway was nearing completion in the remote South Pacific atoll of Wolaei, just a few hundred ...

The US Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, removed significant portions of two World War II-era ...

In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific.

The 1944 game delivered a brief respite from the far-flung battles across the globe, drawing attention back to a good, ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

In 1942, US intelligence achieved the impossible by cracking Japan's naval code, revealing a devastating plot to annihilate ...

Most recent aircraft carriers have been named for US presidents—but this is not a hard and fast rule, and many other ...

American and Japanese officials gathered in Pearl Harbor on Monday as commemorations of the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

While America honors Pearl Harbor 84 years ago, World War II veterans E. Paul Ball and Luther Hendricks say the haunting ...