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.

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...

World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians ... invasion and the greatest assembly of ships and planes the world had known ...

World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates ... Why Narragansett Bay? Because the Navy had major bases both in Newport and Davisville.

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil ... a rare reminder of one of World War II’s least-known histories ...

“I remember every day of it; I enjoyed it, I liked the Navy. I enjoyed being with all the guys on the ship — I never ... he dropped out to help in World War II. It was Nov. 30, 1942, and ...