From its early struggles to its legendary status under Commander “Mush” Morton, USS Wahoo became a fearsome predator, sinking ...

USS Harder was one of the most successful American submarines of World War II, sinking multiple enemy warships in a single ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It's why some World War II soldiers may have gotten thrifty with their tactical ...

Classics like The Best Years of Our Lives and modern gems like Dunkirk are among the best movies made about World War II over ...

On Dec. 6, 1941, Young commanded the repair ship Vestal, which he fatefully brought alongside the battleship Arizona. The ...

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 102, retired Air Force Capt. Dick Nelms, who flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany in a Boeing B-17, shares his WWII ...

Anita Bose Pfaff, daughter of legendary Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose, is working on a book that aims to cast light on a story long overlooked by history.

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

The Oreshnik missile that struck Lviv carried a political payload.

The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...