HMS Campbeltown: Named after the wartime destroyer ... port and denying its use to major German warships for the rest of WW2. The action epitomises the raiding ethos driving the Royal Marines ...

The raid saw a former US Navy destroyer, renamed HMS Campbeltown, packed with explosives and rammed hard into a dry dock in St. Nazaire, Normandy, accompanied by 18 smaller boats carrying crack squads ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

HMS Bristol was launched in 1969, with four new weapons and electronics systems. By the late 1980s, the ship was already becoming increasingly outdated. She was converted into a training ship in 1987.

This is Epic History's guide to HMS Victory, one of the most famous warships in history, and flagship of Vice Admiral Nelson at his decisive victory over the Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet at ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to ...

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A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...

Five projects in the South West will explore the region's rural and coastal working-class heritage. They are among 30 projects across England that will share almost £500,000 from Historic England's ...

We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we ...

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says ending the war means security guarantees Says talks can take any format if guarantees in place Zelenskiy again rules out elections under martial law Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S ...