When World War II Marine Corps hero Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who was based at Camp Pendleton, received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military award in 1942, he was said to have ...

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

McOsker’s motion calls for the city’s Planning Department to prepare the application for the Historic Cultural Monument ...

Two buildings left from a Japanese American fishing village will be considered for historic-cultural monument status.

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

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 ...

Tobago, the smaller of the two Caribbean islands comprising the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, is best-known for its idyllic beaches and crystal waters, as well as tropical rain forests.

One lesser known place to go in the Canary Islands is Tarajalejo on the island of Fuerteventura. According to experts at Sunshine.co.uk, Tarajalejo was "once a small fishing village" but is "now ...

This relationship already provides the United States with the ability to deploy military assets in Greenland without requiring direct sovereignty over the island. World War II also marked a major ...

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SYDNEY, Australia — The Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, which protects a "pristine" expanse of the Pacific Ocean that is home to deep-sea sharks and green ...