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

In this latest installment of Wars of the World’s Deadliest Combatants series, we examine four Americans who went far beyond ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

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 ...

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.

In downtown Manila, rows upon rows of headstones are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

Although he never fired a shot, Addison “Cal” Sheckler was responsible for saving countless lives on the beaches of Normandy ...

"Involuntary parks" transform Earth’s most dangerous and contaminated sites into accidental wildlife sanctuaries.

To hear President Donald Trump tell it, a push to take control of Greenland is a “national security” necessity, critical to reinforcing control of the Arctic against possible threats from Russia and C ...

An email recently arrived from a lady named Paula Gorgey, who is a fan of my work. We corresponded a bit and I learned that Paula is 100 years old and had grown up in Hungary. Sensing a good story, I ...