Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
However, it was not until 2006 that he founded the Airfields Of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT). Since then he and his ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...
Before divers swam around the remains of the cruiser, no one had seen her since she was torpedoed by a German submarine on October 15 1914 while ... on previous dives including surveying the wreck of ...
Its size was advantageous when chasing German submarines but also more vulnerable to sinking if hit. In his last days, we talked extensively, and I am struck by how he felt about society. He felt ...
I have a special fondness for WWII movies made during the war, and here’s one of my favorites. John Mills, who played a military character in 31 films, and his submarine crew all get their leave ...
I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...
China has built a new aircraft carrier in less than six months, raising fears that its enormous civilian industrial might is ...
On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the “Spruce Goose,” on its one and only flight; a ...
The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...