Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

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Military rescue units in Alaska all pitched in to respond to three plane crashes, an avalanche victim, and a stuck helicopter ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...

Explore these 10 WWII Sites on American Soil and uncover powerful stories of bravery, sacrifice, and resilience from one of ...

The Four Chaplains Day observance, Feb. 3, 2025, marks 82 years since Fox, Washington, Poling and Goode selflessly sacrificed ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, ''Hold Strong,'' a work of ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Trump has framed the gas project as a win for Alaska and U.S. allies in Asia seeking a stable source of energy. But Japan already has plentiful access to LNG, and its companies traded some 38 ...

To do so, it is pursuing the most extensive military buildup since World War II, and top leader Xi Jinping ... superior fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, there is no question Xi’s nuclear ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from ...

One point of leverage? Alaska’s Red Dog mine. Red Dog — a huge open-pit operation in Northwest Alaska — is the largest zinc mine in the world, and a major U.S. source of both zinc and a little-known ...