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

On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...

The flaw in the Tomazuru was the installation of excessively heavy armaments on the relatively light vessel, which ultimately ...

During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

It was April 24, 1945, and the Davis had just been torpedoed by a German U-boat, becoming the last warship sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. “The torpedo’s sudden impact was quite a shock ...

Parche emerged from its solo torpedo duel with credit for the 10,238-ton tanker Koei Maru and 4,471-ton passenger-cargo ship Manko Maru. Cmdr. Lawson P. "Red" Ramage, right, receives the Medal of ...

While Hubert Smoak succumbed to combat wounds on land that day, his distant cousins, Master Sgt. William Roy Smoak, 40, and Pfc. Crandell Whaley Smoak, 25, died at sea when German torpedo boats ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and ...

The German city of Cologne announced that three unexploded bombs from World War II, which were discovered earlier this week and prompted evacuation orders for over 20,000 people, have now been defused ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

UP to 20,000 people have been forced to evacuate a historic German city after three unexploded WW2 bombs were found. Large parts of Cologne’s city centre, including hospitals, care … ...