Yet on June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious discovered why carriers should need to stay far away from enemy surface fleets. The Glorious encountered not one, but two German ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only extraordinary circumstances—particularly the lack of Combat Air Patrol—made the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day. Only ...

A piece of military equipment from the 1940s and 50s washed up on a Cape Cod beach last week. A park historian with Cape Cod National Seashore, a part of the U.S. National Park Service, inspected the ...

B-17 Texas Raiders offers an up-close look at aviation history during weekend “Wings and Wheels” event. It has been nearly 70 years since the last B-17 lifted into the air during WWII to join the ...