Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
Harsh weather during conflicts over the past century has pushed the Canadian military to constantly update the materials and ...
“For 50 years, he’s been lying in an unmarked grave and there was never a funeral,” said Wells, 52, of his Brockville-born ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...
While filming for a Channel 4 programme intended to navigate the British Isles by boat, Monty was struck by his vulnerability ...
U-boats were very vulnerable ... Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station.
There were also three destroyers, some PT-boats and some miscellaneous smaller ... of its finest carriers and any chance to annihilate the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. Midway, the second carrier battle ...
Six Shinyo boats were deployed to the site on Aug ... leaders wavered between surrendering or fighting a decisive battle with U.S. forces on the mainland. In one scene of the film, a member ...
Calls to reactivate battleships like the USS New Jersey reflect misplaced nostalgia rather than strategic sense. Even if they ...
He planned to capture the high ground around Ypres, as well as a key rail junction to the east, and then advance on the German-occupied ports of the Belgian coast - critical to the U-Boat campaign.