After World War II, navies grappled with surplus battleship hulls and considered converting them into "battlecarriers"—hybrid ...

City of Sequim staff look to surplus outbuildings and a two-story house at Gerhardt Park, 1610 S. Third Ave. — as early as next spring — to make room for future amenities. Sequim city councilors ...

After World War II, the M22 was quickly retired and largely forgotten, with its limitations preventing widespread use. An interesting postwar anecdote involved a farmer who attempted to use surplus ...

Currently, visitors can climb stairs to a platform that oversees the deck. Eventually, tours will be offered of PT-305’s ...

The efforts of these soldiers attracted skiers and climbers from across the country, transforming Aspen and Vail from sleepy ...

The City of Henderson’s website details how the municipality was birthed out of the need for magnesium during World War II.

The wreck of what was once known as the mysterious “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” that fought on both sides of the Pacific theater in WWII has been discovered lying off the coast of California in ...

As the American government was beginning to sell military surplus equipment (now that WW2 had ended), he asked these friends of Israel to set up a special fund to procure weapons. Dazzled by his ...

An American World War II-era bomb buried beneath a busy Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, cratering a busy taxiway and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, officials said. According ...

Kyodo via AP A U.S. bomb from World War II has exploded at an airport in Japan nearly 80 years after the end of the conflict. The explosion created a large crater on the taxiway at Miyazaki ...

TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...