“During World War II,” Chicoan David Bruhn writes, “German/Italian aircraft purposely bombed and sank thirteen Allied hospital ships in the European Theatre.

Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of an Australian World War II hospital ship that sank in 1943 and left 268 people dead. A search team led by U.S. shipwreck hunter ...

To find the bow of this ship is an opportunity to remember the sacrifice of this valiant crew, even on one of the worst nights in U.S. Navy history.” ...

SYDNEY — Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of an Australian World War II hospital ship that sank in 1943 and left 268 people dead.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Amelia Chmura served as a nurse on a U.S. Army hospital ship during World War II and remembers being tasked with bringing home former prisoners of war from Germany. Chmura, 96 ...

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This ... volunteered in Nov 1939 and enlisted into the R.A.M.C.then posted to Depot. 5thDec 1939 from where he joined the hospital ship Paris. ...

Dedicated hospital ships became a permanent part of the U.S. fleet during the Barbary War when Commander Edward Preble ordered the USS Intrepid, a wooden-hulled bomb ketch, to be converted in 1803 ...