Join us as we delve into the intense and lesser-known battle of Peleliu, where Japanese tanks played a pivotal role in the ...

There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

There is pride of place in his shared nursing home room for the Honor Flight New England Certificate. It documents his June 17 chartered trip with other veterans to the war memorials in the nation's ...

Time flies. Ask any of “The Greatest Generation” survivors of World War II. And it flies for others also. Seventy-five years ago also seems like only yesterday to me. And the nearer a person is to ...

There is a mass of literature at present adopting the ‘face of battle’ perspective, and such works, generally books rather than articles, dominate attention. That is understandable, while much of the ...

NAMPA, Idaho — He tried to join the Marine Corps at 16, but they made him wait. In 1942, Ernie Ferguson joined the Marines at 18-years-old. Ferguson says he wanted to go where the action was, so they ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Buzz Bissinger discusses how military rivalries impacted U.S. success during the World War II Battle of Peleliu (1944). Author Buzz Bissinger ...

Unbound pages from an album documenting Silas William Thompson's participation in the United States Navy during World War II, with particular focus on the Battles of Peleliu and Angaur and his time at ...

"There are no ordinary lives," said Ken Burns of those who served in a global cataclysm so momentous that the filmmaker simply titled his 2007 documentary "The War." Many who served in so many ...