Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...

The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

At 104 years old, Anne Rasmussen has trouble remembering her time in the United States Navy ... watching movies and playing bingo. But in her heyday, Rasmussen was decoding wartime messages in the ...

A local World War II veteran looks back on his military service as a time he encountered much danger but also adventure. Bill ...

The Naval ROTC marches into the middle school gymnasium for ... When he was a child, he loved watching old war movies and “PT ...

Ramsey is so dedicated to the Nevada that when he dies, he wants a portion of his remains to be buried over the battleship, ...

I have a special fondness for WWII movies made during the war, and here’s one of my favorites. John Mills, who played a military character in 31 films, and his submarine crew all get their leave ...

After the international quagmire that was the Vietnam War, movies were no longer all fun ... For New Hollywood to emerge, the old guards needed to step down. By the end of the '60s, big, bloated ...

If you're looking for the best war movies on Amazon's ... who served in the Navy between 1962 and 1965. As one might imagine, the fun and jokes among old friends who chewed the same dirt in ...

William McRaven, the former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, is perhaps best known to Americans as the Navy SEAL who oversaw ... a disturbed 15-year-old boy would do, not the ...