A Phoenix police officer is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a driver from a car submerged in a swimming pool by ...

Saoirse Ronan reads messages from ordinary people who overcame extraordinary odds. Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen's new film Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan, is now playing in select theaters and ...

When Pete Taylor was born in 1920, a dozen eggs were priced at about 40 cents, catching a movie on the silver ... the U.S. Navy World War II veteran celebrated his birthday with about 70 friends ...

The United States Navy commissioned a new destroyer over the weekend in New York City, and it was named after legendary World ...

The USS Edsall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...

What the film did have was a very impressive supporting cast, including Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall.

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

As an Amazon associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases ... into an engrossing coming-of-age tale, all framed by World War II in the Pacific. Read: '2054' Is a Novel of the New ...

At 17 years old, Joseph “Joe” Spotswood falsified his paperwork to join the Navy in 1944 as World War II was in full swing. He was aboard the USS Augusta during the Normandy invasion and took ...

By the end of World War II in the summer of 1945, about 130 American warships were sunk or damaged by kamikazes, according to several military history sources. The escort carrier USS St. Lo was ...