The French submarine Surcouf was the largest and most powerful Allied submarine of its time, designed as an experimental cruiser with formidable firepower. Equipped with a floatplane, two 8-inch guns, ...

A large-scale multimedia production commemorating the final year of World War II in Europe will be performed at the Orpheum ...

Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 ...

World War II bomber pilot Robert E. Coulter Jr. was killed in action but his story still resonates in his La Grange hometown.

GREENVILLE — Garst Museum recently received a rare photograph with annotations of the “Annie Oakley,” a Liberty-class ship ...

Germany's pocket battleships didn't weigh more than the Treaty of Versailles stipulated its battleships could weigh, but they ...

In the dark, turbulent waters of the North Atlantic, one of the most intense and desperate naval battles of World War II unfolded between the outdated USS Borie, a Clemson-class destroyer, and the ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known ...