The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War ...

Great Battleships of WWII focuses on the most powerful British and German Battleships of WWII and explains the great battles and sea chases of the Graf Spee in the Battle of The River Plate, the ...

Key Points and Summary - In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster ...

Key Point: Bismarck and Tirpitz simply did not compare favorably with any other navy’s fast battleships. Prior to World War One, Germany held extensive territories in the Pacific. A German Empire ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German battleships closed in at more than at thirty knots. The British destroyers attempted to lay smoke to cover the carrier’s withdrawal, but it was too late.

An archive of 22 Royal Nay telegram messages describing the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck is up for auction in the U.K. The Bismarck has been described as the largest and most powerful ...

A German König-class battleship in about 1915-1916, possibly the Markgraf, which was scuttled in 1919. (Courtesy of Air Force Master Sgt. Donald L.R. Shake, USAF, 1981, now in the collections of the U ...

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, the “Father of the U.S. Air Force,” was a visionary who argued that air power would make ...