Midway: Vital in WWII, now for the birds
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a weakened and outnumbered U.S. fleet limped north to confront a flotilla of Japanese ships advancing on the remote Pacific atoll of Midway.
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The USS Intrepid is steeped in history: the aircraft carrier took part in major battles and withstood repeated kamikaze attacks during the Pacific War, and later saw duty in Korea and as a recovery ship for NASA.
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Stanley Jones recalls standing outside his home in England, watching open-mouthed as an American warplane arced toward the ground behind a plume of smoke, its engine alternately sputtering and roaring.
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Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne performed there, and heavyweight champ Joe Louis boxed out front. But today the paint is flaking off the World War II-era Colored Officers' Club at the Army's Fort Huachuca, plywood covers the windows and doors, trash is piled inside and it's surrounded by knee-high dry grass.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  May 29--"Nuts!" That's what an American general told a German counterpart  in 1944 when ordered to surrender.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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Ordered to sacrifice themselves for the nation by crashing their planes into U.S. warships as Japan vainly battled to stave off invasion in the final months of World War Two, some young pilots instead returned alive.
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Some of the biggest secrets of World War II have been revealed in a new book.
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Imagine hunting bald eagles before they were listed as endangered in 1967, or gray wolves before their numbers vanished from the landscape here.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 5--The U.S. Navy must train its crews and pilots in the latest weaponry and keep them at a high level of readiness.
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By Kunitoshi Sakurai  An unusual preliminary environmental survey was conducted recently along the coastal area of Henoko point in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, with the participation of a Maritime Self-Defense Force (SDF) minesweeper tender.
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By Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 21--VIRGINIA BEACH -- If this story were a scratch 'n' sniff, it would reek of rotten eggs.
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In the era of Jim Crow &#151; when the Army brass didn't think blacks were capable of flying &#151; a group of minority pilots changed the way the military looked at race.
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Bob Bolus was flipping through Parade magazine two years ago when he came across an article about Sgt. William H. Genaust, who filmed the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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Historians and survivors of Japan's  surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are  using the latest online technology to preserve their memories  of the day that drew the United States into World War II.
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Pearl Harbor veteran Andrew Hlusak of Phoenix was fresh off a 12-hour shore leave on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard a fateful call that signaled the entire world was about to change.