In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were Phyllis Priest, a beautiful hometown girl, and Cooper, a dashing Navy ...

As last fall's presidential election returns reminded us, massive trade imbalances in products ranging from textiles to ...

The Montana-class, planned as the US Navy’s ultimate battleships and successors to the Iowa class, were authorized in the ...

More than 80 years after he died in the attack on Pearl Harbor, John Connolly was finally laid to rest — not as an unknown in ...

When Lake Michigan was used practicing carrier takeoff and landing during WWII, naval air operations didn't always go quite ...

The SS American Victory Ship celebrated its 80th anniversary on May 24. It was built in 1945 and served around the world in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.

The city of Moraine honored two veterans during the City Council Meeting on Thursday. Both Navy Veteran Willie Clemons, Jr. and Air ...

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

The Avenger was designed to replace the Navy’s primary torpedo bomber of the 1930s, the Douglas TBD Devastator, which by 1939 ...

Results from today’s battlegrounds strongly suggest that drones, AI, and other novel technologies favor the defender, with ...

The USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class fast battleship commissioned in 1942, played a significant role in World War II ...

During the last great power naval conflict, the U.S. Navy learned the importance of battle damage repair for sustaining a ...