To disrupt British supply lines in the early months of World War II, Hitler unleashed the feared U-boats to target Allied ...

In the Caribbean Sea, the German submarine U-94 surfaced, wounded and desperate after a failed ambush. HMCS Oakville quickly closed in, unleashing devastating gunfire and depth charges to cripple the ...

William Sharp of Little Egg Harbor found New Jersey's biggest lobster on July 4, 2003, in 70 feet of water, a record that can ...

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and ...

During the American Revolution, Louisiana — which was then under Spanish rule — played a significant role in supporting the ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

Nearly 80 years after scaling barbed wire fences in Nazi-occupied Poland and jumping from moving trains in search of freedom ...

But 600 miles westwards across the Atlantic Ocean it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, claiming the lives of 260 of the 407 on board.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Irving Eisen was in the U.S. Navy during World War II and because of his command of German, he was stationed at the Air Document Research Center ...

Biographical / Historical At the end of World War II the Allies captured a large volume of documents relating to research and development work conducted by the Ordnance Office of the German Army, ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Boats crashed, sank and washed ashore in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday due to a thunderstorm.