A new national museum for the U.S. Navy is planned for outside the historic Washington Navy Yard to give the public unfettered access to the sea service’s history.

The Thompson submachine gun, a rapid-firing rifle, was initially designed for trench warfare during World War I. But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Al Capone.

Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular tourist destination.

Haneda Tokyo International Airport, Japan, March 30, 1958: Movie star William Holden, accompanied by his wife, former actress Brenda Marshall, arrived at Tokyo International Airport

The Defense Department agency tasked with accounting for the missing in action from America’s wars identified 172 service members in the just-ended fiscal year, a slight uptick from previous years but still short of the effort’s annual goal.

Explosive ordnance technicians on Guam recently removed and detonated a U.S. bomb base fuse and two unexploded shells apparently left over from World War II.

Only lack of prisoners mars swift raid. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, July 16, 1952. It is republished unedited in its original form.

The remains of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Herman J. Sundstad, who fought in Burma during World War II as a member of the famed Merrill’s Marauders outfit, have been identified and returned to family members in Minnesota after 80 years.

Two MLB pitchers from Japan — one with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the other with the San Diego Padres — will face off in the playoffs starting this weekend. Both players can trace their baseball lineage to Japanese pitching legend Eiji Sawamura, who was killed fighting U.S. forces during World War II. 

Memorials at Luke Air Force Base and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland will pay tribute to nearly two dozen airmen who died in a helicopter crash in 1975.