This West German movie is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's novel of the same name, which draws heavily from his own experiences aboard a U-boat during World War II. The film chronicles ...

The top five WWII aircraft carriers—chosen for their strategic impact and bravery—include the iconic USS Enterprise (CV-6) ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

What led to the sudden decline of these magnificent machines after World War II? In the 1930s and early 1940s, flying boats were the undisputed ... buffs and remind us of a bygone era when giants ...

Unsinkable Sam was no ordinary cat; he became a wartime legend known for surviving the sinking of not one but three naval ...

Waldemar Othmer, described as “Richmond’s own spy” in the Oct. 1, 1950, Times-Dispatch, was a German national ... In the 1940s, after the U.S. entered World War II, a sense of fear permeated ...

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

It became the title of historian Stephen Ambrose’s 1992 history of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne in World War II and the 2001 ... by an international army of German, British, Flemish and ...

Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...

The nuclear submarine will be the third ship to bear the Long Island name in U.S. Navy history — the first since the escort ...