Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.
THIS month marks the 25 th anniversary of the death of Solomon Mamaloni, one of the foremost founding fathers of the nation. ...
Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German ... Tens of thousands died in the brutal war at sea. Allied mariners died in the torpedo explosions or drowned ...
UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new ...
They were sent to the small town of Venosa, near the Adriatic Sea. The airfield ... Jones returned to Guadalcanal in fall 1944 for rest and relaxation following the Peleliu battle.
Although under-armed and underpowered by the time it was called to combat, the Vindicator had an impact on the development of later dive bombers flown by the US Navy.
But the three remaining destroyers came on, so from time to time during the night eleven SBDs took off to drop flares and heckle them with night dives as they tried to land men and battle-stuff ...
AMONG the sea of names that adorn war memorials around the world ... Joe joined our outfit in New Zealand, where we were resting after [the battle of] Guadalcanal. We were just plain infantry. At ...
But then tiny Margaret from Glasgow, beloved family live-in cook and surrogate mom for some 25 years, took this 6-year-old aboard the USS Lexington (sunk in a 1942 Coral Sea battle) visiting Long ...