The potency of the US Navy’s air power increased at a bewildering rate during the second world war. From hair-raising early ...

In the opening weeks of World War II, a German U boat carried out a daring penetration of Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy’s primary home anchorage. Navigating strong currents, blockships, and narrow ...

CHICAGO — Head curator Dr. Voula Saridakis liked to stand by the entrance to the balcony overlooking the U-505 Submarine exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago to see ...

Hermann Göring believed the United States was only capable of producing consumer goods, not weapons of war. During World War ...

By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the * ...

A man who embodies the Greatest Generation celebrated another milestone in his remarkable life last week in Cape Coral.  James Elmer Smith, a World War II Navy veteran who was on Utah Beach during the ...

During WWII, engineers seriously planned an Arctic war aircraft carrier made of ice. Project Habakkuk sounds ridiculous—until you see why it almost worked.

The US military said Thursday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

As early as October 2026, Russia could overrun a strategic Lithuanian city in just two days amid US abandonment of Nato and hesitancy among European members such as Germany and Poland to deploy ...

The families of Trinidadian fishermen killed by the U.S. military in an October boat strike are demanding justice.