World War II saw a great deal of innovation in the ... the B-25 was pulled from combat duty and was relegated to missions like air-sea rescue, static anti-aircraft gun positions on the ground ...

Known as the Maunsell Forts, these eerie steel structures were built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend ... Several were lost to the sea or dismantled ...

The evacuation of Tyneham Village is a stark reminder of the sacrifices of war. In 1943, at the peak of World War II ... valley about a mile from the sea, it’s hard to believe that 80 years ...

May 4, 2025: The current U.S. Navy fighting the Red Sea is the first combat for the navy since the Persian Gulf operations in the early 1990s. The fifteen months of Red Sea operations were the most ...

On May 3, 1945, just days before the end of World War II in Europe, British Royal Air Force planes mistakenly attacked the Cap Arcona ocean liner in Lübeck Bay in the Baltic Sea. The ship was ...

The world's last seagoing paddle steamer visited two historic Thames Estuary forts off Kent ... as their guide towards London back in World War 2. Footage shows the ship with the Red Sands ...

An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed ... Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites showed North Field ...