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 loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

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 ...

Just a few days before arrival, the troop ship had two torpedoes fired ... about 10-12 miles from the bomb explosion,” remembers Pagel. “They had all kinds of German and (Japanese) ships ...

Abstract: We can conclude that the Elefant radars were experimental, conceived in several respects in imitation of CH, and intended for several purposes - but inspired by the same thinking that led to ...

“I could hear the whistle and my uncle realised it was the German bombs.” The bomb landed two streets away in Wilfred Street but it was powerful enough to knock the glass out of the windows in ...

This wobbly start to the new government hearkens back to old and deeply rooted divisions about the character of the post-World War II German state. In the late 1960s, West German Chancellor-to-be ...

Both acoustic and wake-seeking heavyweight torpedoes were intercepted in various challenging shallow and deep water scenarios. This article by Lars Hoffman was originally published in German language ...