Among the millions of World War II veterans were seven future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

Some beaches in South Florida closed Saturday when the tar balls washed ashore. Those beaches have since reopened.

Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

The number of Israeli citizens applying for a Polish passport has quadrupled, and law offices as well as provincial ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ...

Theodore Preston spent part of his weekend on a dreaded task that rolls around for nearly all adults every few years: getting ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...