A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

"Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells, and two atomic blasts." ...

Tirpitz, the heaviest warship built by a European navy in WW2, spent years tying down Allied forces as repeated air and naval ...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) operations in Louisa County were initiated in the closing years of the Great Depression. Originally established in Rocky Mount, VA., CCC Camp 2347, also known as ...

As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.

Sri Lanka transferred more than 200 sailors from an Iranian naval vessel to shore Friday after it sought assistance while ...

The Sri Lankan government took custody of the Bushehr after the U.S. sank an Iranian warship, the IRIS Dena, off Sri Lanka’s ...

A World War II-era practice bomb was discovered by a construction crew near a Cocoa Beach elementary school. The school was briefly placed on a shelter-in-place status while authorities responded to ...

Military personnel based at Patrick Space Force Base safely removed a World War II-era bomb from a construction site near Freedom 7 Elementary in Cocoa Beach on Tuesday. Airmen with the 45th Explosive ...

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

During World War II, the German Navy, also known as the Kriegsmarine, constructed and deployed 1,162 submarines to fight in the conflict. Most of these subs, which are referred to as U-boats, were ...