The Battle of Midway during World War II is a considered a great victory by the U.S. Navy in 1942, but deep within the smoke of battle there were American losses rarely spoken about in one mission.

Rodney Davis, an Athens man who has studied and visited numerous sites of World War II, will speak on the Battle of Midway at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Oconee County Library, located in Wire Park off ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...