Without the Norwegian sailors who risked their lives in the war, the Allied front might have collapsed and thousands could ...

Through assiduous research and well-paced narrative, Simon Parkin has given us an extraordinary, little-known story from World War II: the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. Its subjects ...

HMCS Nanaimo K101 was one of 122 Flower-class corvette ships built in Canada – 294 were built in total in Canada, the U.K.

A Bazetta resident survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and offered a key eyewitness account of the tragedy that killed ...

On the night of April 10, 1942, a massive explosion shattered the calm at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, as the SS Gulfamerica, ...

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

A stream of issues, breakdowns, injured service members and delays led to concerns about the Army's ability to build the piers and the health of the service's watercraft community.

The Defense Department's Gaza pier mission resulted in 62 personnel being injured and at least $31 million in damages, ...

Conflict cut short the lives of established Test players such as Hedley Verity as well as countless others with dreams to ...

There weren't many British servicemen who were able to say they spent VE Day aboard a German U-boat. Roy Jones was one of ...

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work for the unemployed.