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As part of its recently published strategic direction, "Kurs Marine," the German Navy is considering Joint Strike Missile – ...
First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...
85 years ago, 11 Sunderland children set sail for Canada as they fled to safety - only two came home. Having waved goodbye to ...
Years of the Lusitania Museum and Old Head Signal Tower’ celebrates a decade since the Old Head Signal Tower restoration has ...
On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...
Torpedo boats rose to prominence toward the end of the 19th century, when torpedoes proved an effective means of sinking large, often well-armed and armored water vessels.
In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay ...
During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that on Feb. 28, 1942, U-578 torpedoed the destroyer Jacob Jones off Cape May, New Jersey; only 11 of its 114-man crew survived.
Hero veteran John Eskdale, 100, who saw action across the world and survived being sunk by a German torpedo, told young Brits 'I pray you never have to witness a war' ...
John Eskdale from Lydney in Gloucestershire, visited the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, for the pass out parade of 366 Troop ...