America's "Arsenal of Democracy" relied on commercial manufacturers re-tooling to make the firearms necessary for American troops to fight across the world. One of the biggest plants was the Saginaw ...

The Navy's newest destroyer the USS John Basilone takes its name from the Medal of Honor recipient and hero of the Battle of ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during ...

There is something haunting about the fact that at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the horror which was “The ...

The future USS John Basilone may not have officially joined the Navy’s surface fleet just yet, but the warship is apparently ...

WWII:Long missing, WWII POW buried 82 years after his death ... Flares lit the sky and Marine machine gun tracer rounds added light every fifth round. (Fox Company) was surrounded by Chinese with our ...

Christian looks at US Marine Corps boot camp scenes across history, including mortar and machine gun training during World War II in "The Pacific" E4 + E8 (2010), the Cold War era in "The D.I.," ...

In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled ... often supplemented by one or more crewmen operating M60 machine guns. It could accommodate 12 to 15 troops or six ...

50 calibre machine-guns. The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was ...

Longtime Claremore resident Edna Green-Preciado was one of 10 children of the Green family born before World War II. In her ...

Bishop was killed in World War II in Okinawa. She was 3 1/2 years old. Her sisters, Ona and Billie, were 2 1/2 and 1 1/2. The sisters visit Bishop’s grave in Kossuth Cemetery and speak of him often.