Construction of the Washington commenced at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where her keel was laid down on June 14, 1938.

On December 3, 1942, aerial reconnaissance over Japanese-held territory near Guadalcanal revealed an unsettling anomaly - ...

As part of the 80th anniversary of World War II's Pacific Theater, the band at Ada-Borup West is performing a special tribute Tuesday night, ... Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guadalcanal.

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

On April 1, 1945, thousands of American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a heavily fortified Pacific island to the south of Japan. Nearly three months later, the United States claimed ...

In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of hope that the United States wouldn’t ...

The American campaign to wrest the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began on Aug. 7, 1942. The first land campaign of the Pacific, Guadalcanal was to play an outsized roll in turning the ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon ...

The ship’s last wartime actions involved supporting the amphibious landings at Okinawa. Following the war, the USS New Orleans served in various capacities before decommissioning in 1947. 6.

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.