Richard “Oris” Aldrich dropped out of Niles High School to join the Navy in 1945 and served more than a year in the Pacific.

November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. One local World War II veteran shares what his service, and the service of other military members, means to him.

The ceremony, held in Trieste, coincided with the 71st anniversary of the city’s return to Italy and marks the ship’s ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

large World War II-era vessels also came from Jeffersonville. Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S.

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The ...

USS Alaska surged ahead, ready to confront an innovative German pocket battleship in the cold waters of the Atlantic. The ...

The Midway-class aircraft carrier was instrumental in American naval operations around the world spanning from the end of ...

A team of three divers has shared recent images and haunting stories of the three WWII shipwrecks off Missolonghi in Greece.

Sonnier served for three years. Much of her time was spent traveling the United States to recruit men to fight in the war, ...

San Francisco officials say they weren’t told that the Navy detected plutonium at the Hunters Point Shipyard for 11 months.