What characteristics define the best World War II movies? Is it the intensity and realism of their portrayal of the chaotic battlefield? How about the authenticity of the heroism and camaraderie that ...

"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm s way." When John Paul Jones made that statement, he was only 19 years old and the First Mate of a slave ship in the 1760s. He didn t know that his ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...