There have been some fantastic war movies made over the years, and while they traverse numerous wars, the ones about World War II are plentiful and feature some of the best films. The thing about ...

History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between the smoke clearing and the textbooks arriving, facts get stretched, heroes ...

During World War II, a number of important battles took place that undoubtedly changed the war’s course and that of history. Even with thousands of battles taking place between the Allied and Axis ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...

The battles of Lexington and Concord were discussed April 19 during a presentation at the Ascension Parish Library. Eddie Vaughn, a member of the General Philemon Thomas chapter of the Sons of the ...

YOU JUST KNOW YOUR HISTORY, YOU MAY BE AWARE THAT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL WAS MISNAMED. IT WAS NOT FOUGHT ON BUNKER HILL OVER THERE. IT WAS FOUGHT ON BREED’S HILL RIGHT HERE. AND WITH THE NATION’S ...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in the South Pacific. American patrol boats sunk the ship Dec. 12, 1942, ...

Imagine finding the location of a historic battle hiding in plain sight. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, in this case, it would be a spy movie—because an international team of archaeologists claims ...

The 2,200-year-old artifact was used in a famous battle between Rome and Carthage as part of the Punic Wars. Reading time 2 minutes An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a ...