Archaeologists have rescued an extremely rare wooden sculpture of Hercules from a trash pile in Ibiza, Spain, reported ...

February 1943. In the icy North Atlantic, German U-boats encircled Convoy ON-166, 63 ships hauling vital cargo from America ...

USS Buckley: A Destroyer Escort in the Battle of the Atlantic Commissioned in 1943, the USS Buckley was a destroyer escort, smaller than a destroyer, but built to protect Allied convoys from the ...

In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

Discover the story of the RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, off the coast of Ireland. The tragedy claimed nearly 1,300 lives, including 120 Americans, and helped shift U.S.

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

For over thirty years after World War II, German naval commanders believed their U-boats were defeated by Allied radar and[...] ...

By Jeffrey Dumas The Second World War, the war to end all wars, ended in 1945, 80 years ago, yet a strange fascination about the Nazis persists, including on eastern Long Island. Christopher C. Verga, ...