Although Garmin is frustratingly scant on details, it appears that the zūmo R1 radar requires hard-wiring into a motorcycle’s ...

Torpedo Tessies were far more commonly known as torpedo juice, the legendary liquor of World War II servicemen ... that were on tugboats and small landing craft where you had just a corpsman ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.

Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

The Australian Hydrographic Office has made a historical discovery during a routine hydrographic survey off the coast of ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Readers across the First State have shared their top bucket list item for the new year. Here's what they (and we) want to do.

What are the best WW2 games? The most devastating conflict in our species’ history of fighting over land and ideologies has been distilled into heroic charges, tense dogfights, epic digital wars ...

The medals of a fearless Second World War airman who survived a “suicidal dash” over the English Channel have been put up for ...

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The Second World War saw all sorts of material being created to get into combat as soon as possible. Ships were still the norm for transporting large amounts of troops and supplies to combat zones.

The U.S. Army also has its own inshore landing craft for operations in and around the Okinawa Islands. The army appears to be in better shape in this respect than the Navy or Marine Corps. The Okinawa ...