The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built to attack without consciousness. It was a weapon platform manned by people ...

A newly introduced torpedo was expected to give Allied submarines a decisive advantage early in the war. Instead, design flaws caused widespread failures, allowing enemy ships to escape and ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

The Pentagon says China’s strategy of “national total war” aims to mobilize the country's civilian industry, tech, logistics, ...

During WWII, engineers seriously planned an Arctic war aircraft carrier made of ice. Project Habakkuk sounds ridiculous—until ...

The National Air and Space Museum's second location in Virginia features a restoration hangar where workers repair and ...

The future of the Tillamook Air Museum is uncertain after its historic airship hangar was damaged in a December storm.

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In downtown Manila, rows upon rows of headstones are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ...

For example, the World War II tanker E.M. Clark sank on a relatively flat, sandy seabed in 1942 when it was torpedoed by a ...

Climb 219 steps at the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida for breathtaking coastal views, maritime history, ghost stories, ...

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has completed demolition of the Alpha-2 Manhattan Project-era uranium facility ...