Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...

The mystery of four airmen who vanished when their warplane ran into trouble over remote Papua New Guinea more than 80 years ...

This writer is old enough that his view of Australia and Australians was only reinforced by the laconic, tough-as-nails ...

After more than eight decades, James Burrowes had just about given up hope of ever knowing what truly happened to his uncle Tom, an Air Force crew member who disappeared in World War II.

Judy and Scott Gill of Prairie du Chien, Wis., made a special visit to Fort McCoy on Dec. 2 to deliver 26 vintage photos of Army activities around ...

Gage survived, but unfortunately, it wasn't a total happy ending. His friends and doctor said that, post-accident, he was “no ...

The rescue was met with tears of joy across Australia. Officers who’d worked around the clock said it was the single most ...

The United States military’s crackdown on narco-trafficking routes in the southern Caribbean in the past four months has ...

The incident took place off the coast of Finschhafen on Dec. 27, according to the Papua New Guinea National Maritime Safety ...

SYDNEY, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea, which the largest Pacific Island nation said was funded by Australia under a ...