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Famous owners included publisher William Randolph Hearst, boxer Jack Dempsey and film stars Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino.
Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...
During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...
The sinking of the Bismarck, one of the most iconic naval battleships in history, is one of the most significant events of ...
As an actress, she was known as the “most beautiful woman in the world” during the 1940s. Lamarr was also a technological ...
Philip Lundeberg aboard the U.S.S. Frederick C. Davis, just weeks before it was hit by a German torpedo and sunk in the North Atlantic during World War II. Lundeberg was one of just 27 survivors ...
During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be honored this month.
On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...
At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...
Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.
A German sailor immortalized the moment in a photograph, capturing a rare reminder of one of World War II’s least-known histories: when Nazi U-boats stalked the waters just off the United States ...
A German warship sunk by a torpedo during World War II has been found on the seabed off Norway, more than eight decades after it was attacked.