During World War II, the Allied and Axis powers fielded ... She measured 27 feet, 3 inches wide and 307 feet, 2 inches long, and could sail up to 20.4 knots (23.5 mph) on the surface and 8.75 ...

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 ...

World War II was one of the most defining wars of ... soldier and sending his corpse adrift to Germany through the Spanish Sea. The plan was a success because Germany planned for defensive ...

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 ship, which was called the U.S.S. Stewart, was unearthed after almost 80 years by a team of scientists that used a fleet of autonomous submarines to scan the sea floor. The U.S.S. Stewart was ...

Dunkirk chronicles the titular evacuation of World War II, using three perspectives — land, sea, and air — to tell various stories about the chaos unfolding across France. The 2017 film doesn ...

it was a hastily-constructed nautical fort—one of several the British set up in the North Sea during World War II. Equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, these forts were designed to prevent ...

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 ...

Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process ... t form silhouettes for submarines out to sea, to bomb the coast.

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 ...