With March being Women’s History Month, the museum held a special Women’s History Day event on Saturday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for ...

Only about 45,000 American World War II veterans are still alive today, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. One of them was 101-year-old Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who shared his ...

In large part, industry won World War II. As the United States converted to a total war economy, it banned the sale of new cars and switched its efforts to building the tools to win the war. Not only ...

Wartime didn’t pause the holidays; it reshaped them. In WWI and WWII, American families kept traditions alive with ration books on the table and service flags in the window. Trees were smaller, sweets ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from ...

From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world's seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces ...

Robert Hunt was a torpedoman on the USS Tambor. He ran 12 consecutive war patrols in the Pacific and never fully shook what those missions felt like. "I was just sure I was going to die," he recalled ...