Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret ...

A decommissioned U.S. warship, originally selected for target practice during a joint military exercise, sank unexpectedly on ...

The Shetland Buses played a critical yet little known role in helping liberate Norway from German occupation during the Second World War.

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

Ships can spark the imagination with the romance of seafaring, but not all are elegant. We checked out some of the strangest ...

Next to the Laboe Naval Memorial is a German World War II submarine, the U-995. This vessel was launched on 25 November 1942 ...

It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

Legend had it that Dorothy Furey was the daughter of a wealthy banana importer. Legend had it that her family lost a fortune ...

A 100-year-old VE Day veteran has recalled the “jolly” moment she learned of the German surrender. Ruth Barnwell, from Putney ...

Evansville built the ships that won World War II. Now one of them guards the city’s riverfront. LST-325 spent 75 years ...