Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 21, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. World War II had dragged on for five years when U.S.

Today marks 81 years since the end of the second battle of Guam, a tipping point in the Pacific during World War II when U.S. forces overtook Imperial Japan and recaptured the island. And the moment ...

Binghamton University Anthropology Professor Carl Lipo and Associate Professor of Geography Thomas Pingel are using the same technology used to locate Maya ruins amid the jungles of Guatemala to ...

This Amtrac amphibious tractor is submerged beneath about 50 feet of water within the Agat Unit of War in the Pacific National Historical Park and is one of few currently known underwater relics from ...

A Navy destroyer has been christened in honor of Louis H. Wilson Jr., a former Camp Pendleton Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II for the courageous leadership he showed ...