That night, Japanese forces ran into the U.S. 7th Fleet in Surigao Strait, losing two battleships, a heavy cruiser and several destroyers. Adm ... By 09:07 a.m., Roberts had taken roughly 20 shell ...

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 ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority ... to attacks from machine guns and 20 mm cannons. With approximately 1,000 ...

Contractors successfully moved a barracks building Jan. 22 from its resting area of 80-plus years to a new location on Fort ...

Even though Ford stopped production of the M4A3 Sherman in 1943, it continued creating M4 engines for other tanks until the end of World War II. Ford also produced the M10 Tank Destroyer as part ...

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer ... he was accused of being part of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler. As a result, he was tried ...

A simulated battle by the team, set in the western Pacific, just a few hundred kilometres east of Taiwan, saw a Type 055 destroyer confront an advancing US naval fleet. China’s Type 055 is one ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...

(RNS) — The truly powerful are creators not destroyers, builders not demolishers, life-givers not killers, fixers not complainers, nurturers not bullies. (RNS) — It is an axiom of life that ...

As the RN’s official info page on the Daring class proudly proclaims, “From combating pirates and defending air attacks, to delivering humanitarian aid, these high-tech Type 45 destroyers are ...