Berlin has reached a preliminary agreement with Thyssenkrupp to secure influence over the German conglomerate's defence ...

Flickr/Grille1991 The U-Boat Attacks off Myrtle Beach German submarines hunted ships off South Carolina in early 1942, bringing World War II to American shores. From January to June, Nazi U-boats sank ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

The Kuehns were arrested the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But they lived in high style for many years before ...

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats apologised on Thursday for the party's past Nazi links and antisemitism, part of efforts to present a more moderate, mainstream image to voters ahead of a ...

The plan was to destroy the huge drydock complex at St. Nazaire, thus preventing the German battleship Tirpitz from using the French port as a base to attack enemy shipping in the North Atlantic.

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

During World War II, specialized earthquake bombs were used to flip a German battleship believed to be unsinkable. This video reveals how these bombs changed naval warfare forever.

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and political agenda.

In the early hours of September 9, 1943, the Italian Navy's fleet of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers embarked on their journey from their western Italian bases. Originally, their mission was ...

The Glaswegian, born in Bridgeton, served with Attacker-class carrier Fencer as she protected merchant ships, but also during Operation Tungsten – the air raid that targeted German battleship Tirpitz ...