U-505 was a near absolute failure as a killer, failing to sink a single ship for multiple combat tours. The U-boat couldn't ...

The USS Cobia, a US Navy submarine, sank 13 enemy ships and rescued seven downed American pilots during World War II.

In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact ... re-discovery — of ...

Kennedy (JFK) and just maybe the movie "PT-109" that was made about his time in the Navy during World War II. The "PT" stands ...

The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that sailed to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo. The 12m (40ft) wooden cruiser had been abandoned and sank ...

Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe to the Pacific ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator who was missing presumed ... was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay. Mr Fisher's son, Allan, 88, has spent ...

But soon after, the boat altered its course south toward the ... Director Honda, a former soldier of World War II who had passed through the devastation of the atom bomb in Hiroshima, closely ...