Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...

On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 torpedoed the Vital de Oliveira, sinking it and killing about 100 of the 270 ...

Over 160 unexploded practice bombs dating all the way back to World War II have been discovered underneath a children’s playground in the United Kingdom, officials said.

WWII veteran Tony Battaglia, who served as a medic in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later moved to Honesdale, died Friday ...

Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...

WWII era Philippine Mars stops in Alameda <a ...

On May 3, 1945, during its second war patrol, Lagarto was lost with all 80 crew members aboard. This year marks the 80th ...

A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

At just 11 years old, Dotty Robe witnessed the death of her 14-year-old sister. It was the early 1930s. She died of complications from an appendectomy. Fever and pneumonia took her life. “That was ...

For its first program of 2025, the Mendota Historical Society will welcome historian and Navy veteran Joe Tokarz to give a presentation on a unique slice of World War II history.

When contemplating what stories to write and include in her memoir about her involvement in World War II, Ardes Shea chose the ones that told the beginning of “radical ideas” such as women’s ...

Moffett Field Historical Society is in the process of restoring the control car of a World War II-era K-class blimp.