When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

Not only did the attack plunge the United States into World War II ... the Navy Yard built ships, tug boats, destroyers, destroyer escorts, tenders, troop transports and landing craft." ...

As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo ... built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies.

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...