The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S.

On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...

William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

The Wellington Trust has received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, enabling the ship to open to more visitors ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

"She made six war patrols, sank 13 enemy ships, and rescued seven downed American ... which built 28 submarines during World War II. In 1986, the USS Cobia was designated as a National Historic ...

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton.