In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

Twenty-eight soldiers with the 299th Infantry Battalion were on the Royal T. Frank when it was hit by a torpedo launched by a ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, ...

The sinking of the Japanese warship Shinano remains one of the most extraordinary naval events of World War II. It follows ...

The HMS Anson is the fifth Astute-class fast attack submarine in Royal Navy service—and the eighth vessel to bear the name of ...

Although the U.S. defended Greenland during World War II, it never possessed the nation, and could not have given it back.

ANALYSIS: As Donald Trump features as the main attraction at Davos, his fervour over Greenland shows the complex nature of ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

China has overtaken Russia to become the world’s second-largest operator of nuclear-powered submarines. Updated force assessments indicate that China now operates an estimated 32 active nuclear ...

Jan 6 (Reuters) - Russia has deployed a submarine and other naval vessels to escort an empty, ageing oil tanker that has been trying to evade the U.S. blockade near Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal ...

A Venezuela-linked oil tanker operating in the so-called "dark fleet" painted a Russian flag on its hull, changed its name, and reflagged to Russia in an apparent bid to evade the U.S. Coast Guard, ...