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Navies race to clear mines as Hormuz Strait tensions threaten global trade With the US racing to unblock the Strait of Hormuz and stabilise soaring oil prices, a report emerged that Iran has sown an ...

Iran has populated the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy route, with sea mines. The 1971 War saw the most significant use of sea mines since World War Two in which India sank over 100,000 tonnes of ...

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...

The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing. Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft call ...

Connecting with WWII history through a B-24 pilot's recollections and flight simulation.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

The 11 soldiers included on a list that circulated online in March 2026 actually died in Afghanistan in July 2010. At the time of this writing, 13 U.S. service members had been killed in action since ...

The Blackburn Roc was supposed to be a revolutionary turret fighter, built on the belief that flexible guns could outmatch conventional fighters in the air. Instead, it quickly proved too slow and too ...

Charged with documenting Harvard during World War II, Sterling Dow conducted laboratory visits, interviewed researchers, ...

Pecorak, who fought in Italy with the 1st Armored Division, died on March 15, 2024, aged 101. He was laid at Arlington National Cemetery on March 6, 2026.

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.