A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

A World War II ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging. More ...

British woman ... by the German Navy, becoming the only Brazilian military ship to be sunk during World War II. Its role in the war was mainly in transporting military personnel and also supplies ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

The USS Arkansas is the fifth ship named for the state ... (Take a journey through World War II’s most iconic warships.) The U.S. Navy is one of the largest navies in the world, behind ...

After more than eight decades, new research has revisited the clues from a World War II covert operation lost beneath the ...

A foundation is digitizing the nearly 300 films that the Hearst Corporation recorded during the conflict and were shown in ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

The official announcement, stark and succinct, confirmed the sinking: "The Secretary of the Admiralty announced that the armed merchant cruiser Oceanic, of the White Star Line, was wrecked near the ...

As the only new type of locomotive of its size and capability built during the war, Canadian Pacific and the Merchant Navy ...