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 ...

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 ...

Stuart Pagel, 98, enlisted in the U.S. Navy at 17. Eight decades after the end of WWII, he will ride in a gold Mustang in ...

Key Points – The USS Texas (BB-35), a New York-class battleship serving in both World War I and World War II, was once dubbed ...

Western warships close to the Yemen shore continue using their defensive weapons to defeat attacks launched from the Yemen coast. The United States currently has several destroyers based off Yemen. As ...

Eighty years ago, on May 3, 1945, as Europe stood in hope and prayer for the end of World War II, one of the greatest ... out an air raid on the German ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek, and Athen.

“It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service ... ADVERTISEMENT The Battle of Okinawa, among the bloodiest of World War II, did not end in American victory until June ...

One of the last remaining veterans of the World War II-era battleship the USS Nevada has died. Joseph MacDonald, who served at the invasion of Normany, Iwo Jima and Okinawa as a boatswain mate third ...

In World War II, it participated in the battles of Leyte ... it helped get more than 400 wounded soldiers from shore to larger hospital ships and shot down a Japanese aircraft, according to ...

Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end ... fired a torpedo salvo at the HMS Royal Oak, a Revenge-class battleship which, at the time, boasted the largest guns ever ...

Some of the boats have not made this crossing since World War II, when they played a critical ... "Everyone who crewed those small boats and ships taking the route knew they were risking their ...

MANILA, Philippines — A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used ... navy and suspected militia ships. The Philippines also claims the fishing atoll, which lies about 220 kilometers ...