The USS North Carolina (BB-55) was the lead ship of the North Carolina-class of fast battleships—the first vessel of that ...

A super typhoon steadily battered a pair of remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds and relentless ...

Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese launched their devastating surprise attack on the American Naval Base in Pearl ...

Tourists can learn about this history by snorkeling over the wreck of the German ship in shallow waters just off the island’s ...

Visitors to Ship Island may have seen Madison sharing the history of Fort Massachusetts during island trips.

Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export hub, has come under focus after US and Israeli strikes in the month-old war. A hit on its terminal could shake global oil markets and escalate the conflict across ...

Kharg Island, a small but strategically vital Iranian outpost in the Persian Gulf, has emerged as a focal point in the escalating war between Iran and the United States. The island's significance lies ...

Many communities in the Solomon Islands face growing health and environmental risks. New research has found that decaying World War II bombs are releasing toxic chemicals on the land and in the sea.

Kharg Island looks like the perfect target — take it, and you choke off Iran’s oil. But it’s not that simple. Bill Roggio is joined by Ryan Brobst and Cameron McMillan to discuss why seizing Kharg ...

Even as US President Donald Trump speaks of “winding down” military action against Iran, there is increasing discussion of using the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), centered on the huge ...

While in graduate school, Scott conducted an oral history project collecting residents’ recollections of WWII Maui. The ...

The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, including raids on Kharg Island and coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz, as the war in the Middle East stretched into its fifth ...