Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally ...
The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle offered an advance look Thursday at its newest exhibition, “This We’ll Defend: Celebrating 250 Year of Army History.” Honoring the Army’s 250th ...
Looking out over the skyline of Hiroshima, 96-year-old Junji Sarashina points out places from his childhood. "That was my grade school. Not too far from here," he tells his granddaughter, showing her ...
The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...
It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an ...
The United States has reached a milestone in enhancing its combat capabilities amid China's missile threat to its Western Pacific military bases, as a World War II-era airfield on a remote island held ...
SEATTLE — Eighty years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people by the end of 1945, a Seattle community gathered Wednesday evening to ...