The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship. The United States captured the German heavy ...

To say the end of World War II was hectic would be an understatement. Europe and a large portion of the Pacific Islands were left in shambles as Allied forces scrambled to pick up the pieces and ...

In February 1942, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen broke out from Brest and raced through the English Channel in a high risk bid to reach Germany and then Norway. The move seemed almost ...

A rolling rule, used as a navigational instrument by sailors of the Kriegsmarine during WWII, in heavy dark wood. It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from ...

In May 1941, HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales intercepted Bismarck and Prinz Eugen in the Denmark Strait as Britain tried to stop Germany’s Atlantic breakout. Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy and for ...