It was a balmy morning as the sun rose over the Pacific Island of Ulithi in late 1944. The Reveille rang strongly onboard the docked USS Mississinewa as sailors rushed to their posts, eager to fulfill ...
A day of profound global significance — the formal end of World War II — occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what signaled a hard-won ...