The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying on little more than speed, altitude or guile. Here are ten spy planes of ...

The Pensacola Lighthouse stands like a stoic sentinel on Florida’s Gulf Coast, beckoning visitors with 177 years of maritime history and panoramic views that’ll make your Instagram followers seethe ...

Converted bombers would roar a few hundred feet above the sea dropping depth charges and firing rockets; with over 120 Allied aircraft shot down while attacking submarines this was in no way a ...

Bernard Greenberg, who served with the 126th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, intercepted Japanese radio transmissions ...

Lt. Angelo Belloni seized control of submarine F-43 at the Muggiano shipyards near La Spezia, Italy. The coastal submarine, ...

The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s ...

Remarkably, the crew of the USS Barb did sink a Japanese train during World War II—though not with torpedoes. In 1945, under ...

During both world wars, the German Navy tried its utmost to bring the UK to heel through unrestricted submarine warfare. Conversely, the Royal Navy deployed countless warships, men, and resources in ...

Japan's Defense Ministry said the country faces "the most severe and complex security environment" since World War II.

On February 5, 1945, in the depths of a Norwegian fjord, U-Boat U-864, helmed by Captain Ralf-Reimar Wolfram, thundered out ...

There were no more than four or five hours of air left. They needed an escape plan before the men began to slip into ...

Originally slated to arrive in Manitowoc around 3 p.m. Oct. 15, Wisconsin Maritime Museum said it will now be closer to 2 p.m ...