Navy divers finished recovering an estimated 250,000 gallons of oil Monday from a captured warship that survived World War II and two atomic bomb tests before sinking 72 years ago. The oil extraction ...
In 1941, HMS Victorious, an imposing, Illustrious-class aircraft carrier, joined the hunt for the notorious German battleship ...
The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship. The United States captured the German heavy ...
In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...
A rolling rule, used as a navigational instrument by sailors of the Kriegsmarine during WWII, in heavy dark wood. It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from ...
Air crew of 42sqdn. shortly before the attack on Prinz Eugen 17th May 1942 front left flt.sgt. Charles Wallen (my father) front right P.O. John Saunders Both my father and my mother's first husband ...
To say the end of World War II was hectic would be an understatement. Europe and a large portion of the Pacific Islands were left in shambles as Allied forces scrambled to pick up the pieces and ...