The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...

On April 7, 1945, the legendary Yamato – the largest ship in naval history – was attacked by waves of American carrier-borne ...

The event remains one of the few instances where battleships single-handedly defeated an aircraft carrier in World War II, leading to significant controversy and historical debate. How German ...

The German Navy ships recently passed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time in over 20 years, defying China's warnings ...

Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

BERLIN--Two German warships await orders from Berlin, their commander said, to determine whether next month they will be the first German naval vessels in decades to pass through the disputed ...

In the opening hours of World ... German bomber. Gnys is credited with the first allied air-to-air victories of the war by most sources. These acts would be the opening shots of World War II, ...

In 1939, this was no longer the case as the vast majority of Germans only reluctantly supported the war. The early period of the war, 1939-41, was successful for the German army and there was ...