On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Each year on February 15, followers gather at Sulfur Bay near the smoking slopes of Mount Yasur, one of the world’s most ...

Valley author Lanny Bledsoe’s 13th novel, “Tuck Grit,” traces a River Bluff youth who becomes a WWII fighter pilot and his ...

In the Solomon Islands, a single stretch of water became the center of a brutal year-long campaign. This breaks down the key naval battles around Guadalcanal, and why so many ships went down here that ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, ...

Foss shot down 23 Japanese aircraft from October 9 through November 19, 1942, according to his Medal of Honor citation. As the executive officer of Marine Fighting Squadron 121, Marine Air Group 11, ...

The 4th Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division landed on several islands within the atoll. Four days later, ...