April 13, 1940, marked a pivotal moment in WWII when the Royal Navy's HMS Warspite unleashed its firepower on the trapped ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

The early attempt at drones in World War II saw the Army Air Forces convert B-17 bombers into remote-controlled flying bombs.

"Phantom Fleet" is a meticulously researched account of the daring 1944 U.S. Navy mission to capture Nazi submarine U-505, blending high-stakes naval drama with the pivotal intelligence breakthrough t ...

The Alaska-class ships were unique American warships from World War II, designed as massive “large cruisers” or ...

One woman wondered back in September if it was her grandfather, Richard Yarling. We try to find out if he was the oldest ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

Now, eight decades later, the vessel — the only intact German submarine that was captured by US forces during World War II and salvaged — is open to the public at the Griffin Museum of Science ...

The Royal International Air Tattoo delighted crowds with an incredible number of modern aircraft, including for the first ...

Each time we revisit the World War II era, I find it hard to imagine what it must have been like to have been living in that time – to open the newspaper and see, week after week, names of local ...

Planes revolutionized warfare in the 20th Century, and these fighter jets represent the best in military innovation during ...

At the age of 22, 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr. of Savannah was killed in a B-24J Liberator crash over Nazi-occupied Poland, ...