This week, a Springfield veteran who served his country during World War II, celebrated his 100th birthday. He is being ...

Captain Willian D. “Bill” McClure was born in 1925 in Lebanon, Missouri, where he was raised in a family of […] ...

From Valley Forge to Eutaw Springs, teen fifer Uriah Brock marched through the Revolution, then settled in Missouri, leaving ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...

The USS Texas has endured a lot since it was commissioned in 1914, and 2026 will see it on display in refurbished condition ...

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

Last week, President Trump, with his customary fanfare, unveiled plans for a new “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships. “There’s never been anything like these ships,” the president declared as he ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

President Trump’s plan for new American battleships appears to be going for a “bigger-is-better” mantra — perhaps a nod to the commander-in-chief whose name they will carry. The Trump-class vessels ...

Approximately 3,000 Nimitz crew members are coming home after a nine-month global deployment. The ship will be performing maintenance at Naval Base Kitsap before a homeport shift to Naval Station ...

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group pulled into Guam’s Apra Harbor on Thursday, the ship’s first visit to the island since 2024. The Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by the ...

A Navy Midshipmen football player wears the service's 250th edition uniform, which honors the USS Constitution, ahead of the 126th Army-Navy game. (Army-Navy Game) The U.S. Naval Academy’s uniform for ...