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 ...
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 ...
My squadron was based at Wick in Scotland, where our objective was to strike any enemy ships moving along the Norwegian coast. It was on the 17th of May 1942 that reports were coming in that the ...
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 ...