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

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

Stories Behind the Stars founder says the pace of stories being written has doubled since 2000 but the group still needs more ...

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

The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

HMAS Sydney, a powerful and celebrated Australian cruiser, was expected to return to Fremantle Harbor but never arrived. Days ...

Resident input is being sought on a proposed monument to a World War II U.S. Navy destroyer that sank off the coast of Cape ...

Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library describes the challenges Newark's Arthur B. Hiles ...

Essentially, the Danzig Crisis was an incident between Poland and the Free City of Danzig (today known as Gdańsk). The Polish government believed it had the right to both station warships across ...

Eighty years ago, on May 3, 1945, as Europe stood in hope and prayer for the end of World War II ... Lübeck in Germany. British aircraft carried out an air raid on the German ships Cap Arcona ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin ... as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf Hitler’s army got their final resting place.

European countries, including Germany, are commemorating the end of World War II on the continent. Europe's deadliest war came to an end 80 years ago. Ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of ...