To honor the brave lives of soldiers and sailors lost in both events, Bangor’s Junior ROTC held their annual commemorative ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

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

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed the location of the sunken warship Vital de Oliveira. The vessel transported troops during ...

Pacific Command is a new naval miniature wargame which focuses on carrier combat in the Pacific during World War II. You will ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although America learned of the attack via radio ...

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

It was the largest loss of life during a ship convoy in World War II. Volunteers with the nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars have memorialized PA’s 75 victims of the Dorchester tragedy and have ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Tuzla (Turkey) (AFP) – The world's longest wind-powered cargo ship was launched Friday in Turkey, offering a promising way to slash carbon emissions from merchandise trade. The 136-metre (450 ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...