The Martin PBM Mariner flying boat broke the rules long held by the United States Navy, winning a production contract in 1937 without a full-scale prototype and impressing officials across the service ...
Conceived before Pearl Harbor and mass-produced during World War II, the Essex-class carriers gave the U.S. Navy a scalable, resilient flight-deck that could launch bigger air groups, absorb damage, ...
World War II wasn’t just fought by men and women on the front lines, it was also defined by the machines they rode, drove, ...
On Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Yamashita personally surrendered to the 32nd Infantry Division, where, according to an official ...
I remember the first time my dad took me on a short road trip around Gettysburg when I was a child. We talked about the history of the battlefields, historic battles, and iconic moments in ... Read mo ...