Contractor on scene at Buffalo Naval Park To remove residue fuel, oily water from WWII-era ship and sub

The Buffalo naval park is a busy location these days with pumping trucks and large holding tanks on trailers on site. 2 on ...

Pentagon Begins Search for Remains of WWII POWs Lost on Japanese ‘Hell Ship’

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...
Interesting Engineering

US launches search in Philippines for WWII prisoners lost on Japanese ‘hell ship’

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard During World War II: A War Archivist’s Story of the University’s Bygone Era

Charged with documenting Harvard during World War II, Sterling Dow conducted laboratory visits, interviewed researchers, ...
All That's Interesting

Researchers Find The USS Nevada, The Battleship That Survived Pearl Harbor, D-Day, And An Atomic Bomb

"Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells, and two atomic blasts." ...
The Tribune-Democrat

U.S. attack on an Iranian warship did not violate international law, experts say

Legal experts say a U.S. submarine’s deadly attack on an Iranian warship does not appear to have violated international or American military law.
The Herald Bulletin

Sri Lanka takes custody of an Iranian vessel off its coast after US sank an Iranian warship

Sri Lanka is bringing more than 200 sailors from an Iranian ship ashore after the vessel sought assistance near the Indian ...
The Tribune-Democrat

Exhibit honors Japanese Americans who fought for U.S. in WWII while their families were locked up

A new traveling exhibit tells the story of Japanese American soldiers who fought for the U.S. in World War II, even as their families were incarcerated as enemies of the ...

Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India

Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters ...

Fight over Trump's Iran war powers comes after a long stretch of Congress yielding to presidents

The House and Senate fight over war powers and Congress' role in Iran is just the latest wrangling in a constitutional tug of ...
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Big, beautiful Boerum Hill townhouse has a barefoot lawn and a finished basement for $7.8M

While a designer-renovated townhouse in the heart of brownstone Brooklyn may fulfill many a real estate dream, we often expect to give up a green lawn and flexible, livable basement. Asking $7.8 ...