However, it did end the war on a more glorious note when a captured Fa 223 Drache became the first helicopter to successfully cross the English Channel. Advertisement Focke-Acheglis Fa 330 Bachstelze ...

The naval destroyer USS Borie sinks in the North Atlantic on Nov. 2, 1943, after being heavily damaged in a battle with a German submarine, U-405, the previous day.

Sailors in vintage military uniforms ride on a World War II-era amphibious boat on March 22, 2025. U.S. Army photo.

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...