At 7:57 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Doris Miller was collecting laundry aboard the USS West Virginia when the call to battle stations sounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite not being trained ...

There's no shortage of great epic movies set during World War II, as classics like Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, and The ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor marked a pivotal moment in American history, transforming the nation’s military and industrial capabilities overnight. This video explores how the U.S. mobilized for World ...

Surprisingly, Steven Spielberg 's Saving Private Ryan now ranks only sixth among the highest-grossing war films, although ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

The victory over the Axis powers in World War II came at a cost beyond the lives of those who died or were injured in battle. Trauma was pervasive and often unacknowledged.

There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...

We think of the 1940s as World War II. But a lot more was happening in that decade. In Daviess County, more than 5,000 of us marched away to war and 226 of us didn’t come back. There were 30,245 of us ...

1846: U.S. Marines and Navy sailors take possession of San Diego during the early months of the Mexican-American War. Two ...

Eighty-three years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Harry David Bordner of Butte, who was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, has been officially accounted for.

Whiskey expert Susan Reigler investigates the birth and evolution of bourbon making in Kentucky. In prehistoric Gaul, the ancient Celts revered Borvo, a god of healing springs later identified with ...