On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last two remaining members of the 355 original Tuskegee Airmen during World ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built ...

During World War II, German submarines cross the Atlantic to defeat the Allies. The ensuing battle is so deadly that Winston Churchill doubts victory.

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships ... Still, the crew of No. 2 aft gun turret fired off six more shells at the enemy before leaving their ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

The new leader of one of Mobile’s landmark attractions says he’s ready to bring World War II history to the next generation. Officials at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park ...

Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

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 ...