In early 1940, the German tanker Altmark attempted to evade the Royal Navy while carrying 300 Allied POWs, captured from ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee. When spotted by a British aircraft, ...

British Indian minister Lisa Nandy today unveiled plans for festivities over four days in May to commemorate the 80th ...

The Indian Navy’s first-ever aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, with pennant number R11, was commissioned on 1961. On this day, ...

"Eighty years ago, the freedoms we enjoy today were defended by our remarkable Second World War generation," British Defence ...

There must be some way out of here… Before Ukraine declared it was ready to agree to a proposed 30-day ceasefire after the US ...

The British Government has revealed a four days worth of VE Day celebrations, including a military processions, street ...

Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...

The USS Intrepid (CV-11) was an aircraft carrier launched in April 1943. The ship was decommissioned in 1974 and opened as a ...

Two weeks before Christmas 1941, with World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific, she learned that the British Royal Navy ship her son was serving on, the HMS Repulse, had been sunk by Japan.

For those seeking a more natural beach experience, Cape Henlopen State Park lies just outside town. The park boasts six miles of shoreline, spectacular dunes, and nature trails that wind through ...