The crew of the submarine U-1206 were forced to abandon the vessel after its high tech toilet malfunctioned; its wreckage ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the ... to send troops to fight in World War II on behalf of the Allies, which ...

They were designed to engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, luring in surfaced U-boats as British crews pretended to escape in “panic parties” before a German submarine commander blew up ...

At just 20 years old, he completed his first bombing mission in an Avro Lancaster. On the 18th April 1945 he flew the last of ...

Henri G. Busignies was smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Paris under the cover of darkness, carrying prototype radio devices that could change the course of the war. With escape routes rapidly closing, he ...

A versatile transport aircraft Though produced at the latter end of WWII, the Mars fleet supported US Navy operations by flying cargo between Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. The flying boats were ...

In the film, PT-109 bore the same gray color as contemporary U.S. Navy vessels ... used by her fellow PT boats in the Western Pacific theater during World War II. PT-109 arrived in the Solomon ...

SINGAPORE—In 2002, with China’s shipyards producing just 8% of global commercial tonnage, then-Premier Zhu Rongji challenged ...

Among the saddest forgotten stories of Rangers World War II was the saga of Dudley (Red) Garrett. The Toronto-born defenseman ...

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The shared strategic interests between Australia and the US are more aligned now than at any time since World War II.