At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

Outnumbered at Calabria, HMS Warspite miraculously crippled the Italian flagship Giulio Cesare from over 15 miles, cementing her reputation as a terrifyingly precise battleship. From World War I's ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...

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

The June 6, 1944 invasion involved the deployment of around 150,000 Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy, France ...

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 ...