Throughout history, with the advancement of weapons technology from catapults and canons to unmanned combat aerial vehicles, there has long been a belief that the infantryman would be rendered ...

The Chrysler 426 Hemi V-8 dominated the streets during the Golden Age and radically transformed the muscle car and American ...

During WW II many companies working for the Third Reich used slave labor, as it was cheap and the Nazi Party determined who worked where. American companies Ford and General Motors had extended their ...

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

Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20, 1942, ...

For decades after his military service, Bruce Whipple would take his mobile museum filled with Vietnam-era items to military shows, schools and air shows. The 75-year-old, who served in the Vietnam ...

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said. By John Bartlett and ...

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