Many of the machines created during World War II were engineered with one goal in mind: to survive anything. Eight decades ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A massive gun that was on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II will soon be installed on a cliff at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.

A gun that fired the U.S. military’s first shot in World War II may soon be moved from the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. The gun from the USS Ward could be taken to the future Minnesota ...

SUMY OBLAST, Ukraine — Thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers recently ventured into Ukraine’s countryside in the dead of night loaded with World War II-era guns and pick-up trucks to go hunting — ...

Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the destroyer USS Ward was patrolling the waters around the entrance to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. When another American vessel spotted a periscope peeking out of ...

The gun that fired the first American shot of World War II will be moved from its longtime home in St. Paul this week, exactly 80 years after that defining conflict of the 20th century came to an end.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Used by the Germans in WWII, the Pak 40 makes other anti-tank guns look like toys. It can fire 10 shots per minute, and the force of one shot can ...