When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …

The January 1943 Red Army victory over the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the south was matched that same …

By the end of 1942, the Japanese Navy had shot its bolt at Guadalcanal. Unable to even get sufficient supplies …

As the calendar turns from 2012 to 2013, we here at Defense Media Network take a look back at our …

In his study of American generals from World War II on, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II …

Operation KE was the Jan. 14-Feb. 7, 1943 withdrawal of 10,600 defeated, starving Japanese soldiers of the battered 17th Army …

To those who don’t know its history well, New York City may not appear to be a Navy town. However, …

At air shows in Ohio and Indiana in the triumphant months after World War II, visitors saw an odd-looking, four-engined …

Unlike the Kriegsmarine’s U-boats, which he embraced, Adolf Hitler had a love-hate relationship with its surface fleet, one complicated by …

On Dec. 21, 1942, the Justice Department issued an eight-count indictment against the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company and five …