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

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

Oscar-winner is almost seven decades old, but fans have hailed its depiction of WWII navy warfare as 'an exemplary ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) tested its MQ-9B SeaGuardian drone with a new ...

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

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It's why some World War II soldiers may have gotten thrifty with their tactical ...

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.

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 ...

On Dec. 6, 1941, Young commanded the repair ship Vestal, which he fatefully brought alongside the battleship Arizona. The ...

The US deployed its forces to defend Greenland, a Danish territory, during World War 2. This has been stated ad nauseam by ...

Falke served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and won the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial heroism. But he insisted his achievements were no big deal.