Category: History

Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103. (FOX)- Hartle died Tuesday afternoon at an Escondido, California, center for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2jnUNzC) reported […]

The family of a deceased World War II veteran from New Jersey has been reunited with his 1938 class ring, lost 73 years ago while he was serving in the South Pacific. (FOX)- Nearly 50 people gathered Thursday at Audubon High School for the ceremonial return of Edward J. Dodds’ ring after it was discovered in Papua New Guinea in 2013. Dodds’ five children were at the ceremony, […]

A team of scientists selected by federal officials in Seattle have come across new evidence in the mystery of D.B. Cooper. (FOX)- The Citizen Sleuths have been analyzing particles found on the clip-on-tie that Cooper left behind after he hijacked a Northwest Orient airplane in November 1971. Tom Kaye, the lead researcher of the group, […]

Department of Defense officials may have found the remains of U.S. servicemen missing since their aircraft crashed in the Himalayas during World War II. (FOX)- U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) visited two sites in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the search for remains, a DPAA spokesman told FoxNews.com. Aircraft carrying the […]

A Nevada Army veteran who died without knowing he won the nation’s highest medal of bravery received the honor he’s been owed for nearly 140 years in a ceremony on Monday. (FOX)- Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei held an event at his Reno office to present a new Medal of Honor to Jerry Reynolds, the 82-year-old […]

Years before the CIA was formed, a decorated U.S. general known as “Wild Bill” led a clandestine group working to turn the tide of World War II. (FOX)- Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan, a Medal of Honor recipient during World War I, organized the Office of Strategic Services in 1942, at the outset of the […]

More than 2,300 U.S. servicemen died in the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. (Fox News)- The attack left 2,403 U.S. military personnel dead and 169 American aircraft destroyed. But in the coming years the Japanese suffered heavy losses, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that culminated in the end of […]

For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul “Bud” Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him — and not his last-minute replacement — on the doomed voyage of the USS Thresher in which 129 men died. (FOX)- This week, at his family’s request, a Navy submarine […]

The film follows a crew operating the vehicle to explore the lower decks of the U.S.S. Arizona for the first time since it sank, according to the network. (FOX)- In one scene, a sink appears as if it is attached to the ship’s floor due to a high sediment buildup. On a shelf in the […]

A historic World War II boat that survived dozens of operations — and a few near-misses — on the other side of the Atlantic is finally heading home to the waters where its journey began more than 70 years ago. (FOX)- PT-305, fresh off a multi-year restoration project at the National World War II Museum […]