A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

WWII veteran Tony Battaglia, who served as a medic in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later moved to Honesdale, died Friday ...

For the last couple of Saturdays, Carrickfergus’s First World War Q-Ship called Result dominated this page. Today it’s her equally heroic sister’s turn - the Carrickfergus-built Q-Ship called Mary B ...

As one of the world’s most formidable fighting forces, the United States Navy is rightfully feared worldwide. Even though the ...

No one could calculate the number of historical movies that get everything wrong: it’s all of them. To take one at random, ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

MI5 and Royal Navy officers tricked the Nazis with a risky deception that saved thousands of lives. That incredible act of derring-do has since inspired a bestselling book, a Hollywood movie, a West ...

Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

In theory, actors and United States Marines might seem to be the extreme opposites of one another. The latter are perceived ...

Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...