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World’s Largest LEGO Ship – USS Missouri WWII Battleship

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

Shock and Awe Photos of the US Battleships Firing the Big Guns

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

World’s largest LEGO ship – USS Missouri WWII battleship

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

Pacific veterans return to World War Two battle sites

Retired Lt. Col. Kenneth “Scooter” Barclay is seen during a recent tour of World War II battlefields with The Greatest Generations Foundation. 70 years after…

Big Guns – Battleship USS Missouri Shock & Awe [WATCH]

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

Desmond Doss – never heard of him? MoH for single-handedly carrying 75 wounded men out of a raging battlefield

Jeff Edwards

Once Hollywood gets hold of a story it often becomes difficult for the viewer to separate fact from Hollywood fiction.  With the upcoming release in…

WWII Marines to Return to Iwo Jima to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Bloody Battle

WWII veteran and former Marine Hershel Williams, Woody to his buddies, is one of the group of WWII Marines who will be returning to the…

Don Fida, The Only WWII’s Kwajalein Battle Survivor Fit to Attend Its 71st Anniversary

WWII vet Don Fida of Syracuse will be returning to the Japanese-controlled Kwajalein atoll, an island which saw the bloody Kwajalein Battle during Second World War seven…

Okinawa Continues to Clean Up WWII Explosives

Ian Harvey
WWII explosives

Even though the war has been over for almost seventy years, WWII explosives still continue to surface around Okinawa. Japan is trying their hardest to…

The Real-Life US Marines Behind the Characters of ‘The Pacific’

June Steele
Still from 'The Pacific'

The Pacific (2010) is one of the most realistic depictions of the fighting that occurred in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. It…

Oliver Hazard Perry Shipyard Vying to Become New Home of the USS Halyburton (FFG-40)

USS Halyburton (FFG-40) at sea

If you travel across the United States, it’s likely you will come across the many decommissioned submarines and ships that have been given new life…

Nearly 500,000 Purple Hearts Were Made In Preparation for the Proposed American Invasion of Japan

US Marines aiming their weapons in the field

Operation Downfall was a planned military operation by the United States and its allies toward the end of the Second World War. The aim was…