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 ...

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 ...

The tumult and competition of World War II ignited innovation in military technology at an unprecedented pace. The ...

Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library describes the challenges Newark's Arthur B. Hiles faced in World War II.

A look back in history reveals how U.S. battleships played a key role in accommodating the long-range weapon system known as ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe USS Hornet leaving Hampton Roads in October 1941. The search for the wreckage of the USS Hornet, an ...

For Memorial Day 2025, the Ripon Historical Society looks back more than 80 years to World War II and will honor the first and last Ripon casualties from that conflict. The American involvement in ...

The United States was effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As the maritime historian Salvatore R. Mercogliano ...

The SS American Victory Ship celebrated its 80th anniversary on May 24. It was built in 1945 and served around the world in ...

During the last great power naval conflict, the U.S. Navy learned the importance of battle damage repair for sustaining a ...