American troops were facing an impossible enemy—German heavy armor like the Panther and Tiger. But in the late days of WWII, ...
Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new destroyer escort, USS Buckley, did just that by slugging it out in hand-to-hand combat with German sailors from U-66 in the middle of the Atlantic. For ...
On July 6, 1971, HMS Cavalier and HMS Rapid, two veterans of the Royal Navy, met off Scotland's Firth of Forth for a historic ...
In fact, the Navy owned the Jeffboat shipyard during World War II. Jeffboat builders constructed more than 100 warships for ...
The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...