On November 6, 1943, the American First Infantry Division came to the county as part of the preparations for the D-Day landings. Upon their arrival, the American servicemen were given seven pages of ...
On Dec. 6, 1941, Young commanded the repair ship Vestal, which he fatefully brought alongside the battleship Arizona. The ...
The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on ...
IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing ...
In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy's first of six offshore patrol vessels from South Korea, the future BRP Rajah ...
The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...
In need of repairs, the Bobolink sailed to Devonport, a seaside town that nine years later would merge with two other towns — ...
Crew of HMS Dasher awarded the Arctic Star Medal - almost 83 years after the Royal Navy aircraft carrier sank following an explosion off ...
On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
Crew of HMS Dasher awarded the Arctic Star Medal - almost 83 years after the Royal Navy aircraft carrier sank following an explosion off ...
The family of a Pennsylvania naval officer, killed more than eight decades ago when an anchored Navy destroyer exploded and sank off New York Harbor, believes their loved one's remains may be buried ...