World War II veteran John "Jack" Cowell celebrated his 101st birthday on Tuesday by saluting his comrades in arms. Literally.
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Ghosts of the Sea: The WWII Flying Boats That Changed the War
They glided across oceans like ghosts, part aircraft, part ship. These WWII flying boats carried hope, terror, and legend in ...
The Merchant Marine operates in both peacetime and wartime, but its services are particularly valuable during times of ...
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The world’s most impressive battleships and why they still matter
The largest ever mounted on a warship, each gun could fire 3,200-pound (1,460 kg) shells over 26 miles (42 kilometers).
Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.
The U.S. Navy did not finish construction of the USS Illinois battleship because aircraft carriers became the dominant naval ...
Tucked away in a secluded industrial quayside in south Wales, a "forgotten veteran" of World War Two is hiding in plain sight ...
Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S. forces deployed ships from southern Indiana to the Pacific ...
The United States has bombed six ships near Venezuela President Donald Trump greenlit the CIA to operate inside the country.
Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances ...
In his diary, Lam wrote of a narrow brush with death on D-Day aboard HMS Ramillies, as the battleship’s mighty guns were ...
More than 4000 Japanese soldiers perished when Chuuk Lagoon, known as "Truk" at the time, was bombarded by US forces at the ...
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