We’ll call this photo “The Last Day of Kindergarten,” and the composition by Joe Rosenthal is exceptional. The June 18, 1965, scene shows a teacher waving at children as they bolt from the entrance of ...

After defeating the Japanese on Guam, the unit was part of the invasion force sent to take the porkchop-shaped island of Iwo Jima in February 1945. The Japanese were using the eight-square-mile ...

Ten World War II veterans traveled from Texas to D.C. to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Marine 2nd Lt. Robert D. Taplett missed Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor but would go on to experience the Doolittle Raid.

Eighty-three years after a Japanese surprise attack rattled the serenity of a Sunday morning Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, ...

The USS Arizona was the flagship of Battleship Division One. She sank after her forward magazines exploded after being hit by ...

After decades of resting in anonymity, new light is now being shed on the identities of the "unknowns," killed aboard the USS ...

John Wayne was very unhappy with his 1956 epic flop, which is not only considered one of the worst movies of all time but ...

Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo and then worked for 35 years for the S.F. Chronicle, will get a block ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...