Frenchy Spradling was just 24 when he died at sea during World War II. His story, preserved through family letters and memories, is one of several honored each Memorial Day in Chaffee, Missouri. He ...

WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, Jan. 2, 2007) - Thirty years before fighting political fires in the wake of Watergate, President Gerald R. Ford battled blazes in World War II. U.S. Naval ...

The forgotten shelter that survived Tacloban’s 1944 superstorm. Not far from today’s ruined shoreline of Tacloban once stood a US naval base that faced another monster storm— long before Supertyphoon ...