In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...
Seven Japanese-American soldiers deemed “enemy aliens” in World War II were posthumously commissioned eight decades after ...
Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, ...
On Dec. 6, 1941, Young commanded the repair ship Vestal, which he fatefully brought alongside the battleship Arizona. The ...
Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...
During the December flight tests, the SeaGuardian dropped a mix of AN/SSQ-36 Bathythermal, AN/SSQ-53G Directional Frequency ...
In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...
Michigan is home to more than a half dozen historic vessels from the age of sails to steam and diesel power that you can visit and tour. Michigan also features the historic car ferry, SS Badger, but ...
World War II, a global conflict that engulfed nations, was not just limited to the well-known battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. Many are unaware of the less iconic, yet strategically significant ...
In a crushingly swift campaign, Germany humiliated France in just six weeks during World War 2, exposing the utter inadequacy of French military efforts. The famed Maginot Line touted as an ...