Immerse yourself in the pivotal moments of World War II at the Battle of Midway, as we delve into the daring torpedo strike ...

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The Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger was developed as a superior replacement for the obsolete TBD Devastator, entering mass production shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941-42. It was a powerful and ...

When U.S. Navy warships began exploding in the middle of the night, America realized it had a problem. In the autumn of 1942, Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands near Australia, became the focal point ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Consigning patriotic young men to pilot unreliable torpedoes to their certain death was just one addition to the vast waste of Japan’s war effort. By 1944, Japan was ...

Explorers on a quest to study a famed wartime shipwreck site have discovered new artifacts from one lost American destroyer. The USS DeHaven, which was sunk during an attack off the Solomon Islands in ...

A fisherman landed an explosive catch while out trawling for fish along the sea bed in Denmark that was later revealed to be an undetonated World War II torpedo. Danish fisherman René Kloster alerted ...