Throughout American history, private ships have been used in times of conflict. This first use occurred on June 12, 1775, at Machias, Maine, when a group of American colonists captured the British ...

Two green helmets with scratches sit on a bunk. Metal dinner trays are stacked in the kitchen — the actual ones used by servicemen for meals. An old Jeep is parked on board with a Red Cross emblem and ...

WALSTONBURG — A marker at the local cemetery now memorializes a native son more than 80 years after he died aboard a Japanese prisoner of war transport ship during World War II. An April 22 ceremony ...