In the winter of 1944, four German paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor broke free from a POW camp in the French port of ...

For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

Germany has ordered the Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Joint Strike Missile (JSM) to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin ...

There were many casualties. As he walked down the landing plank in a strong wind with a heavy swell, he fell into deep water. Weighed down by his equipment, he sank to the seabed.

For a company that started out in a shed converting surplus US Army engines to power bicycles, Honda has certainly grown. Yesterday it launched and recovered its own rocket, programming the craft to ...

Hyderabad: Was it a bomb threat or a refusal of landing permit, or a combination of both that led to a Lufthansa flight bound for Hyderabad making a U-turn and returning to Frankfurt Airport in ...

That is, if they made it ashore at all. Many men drowned when their landing craft were swamped by seawater in the choppy English Channel. Weighed down by a hundred pounds of gear strapped to their ...

I’m not sure yet how I got out after I was hit.” Troops from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles aboard a wooden landing craft carrying about 35 men, heads towards Juno Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944.

The planned landing site was Mare Frigoris, a plain about 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the moon's north pole. Lunar landings remain challenging due to the moon’s rugged terrain.

Japanese spacecraft goes dark during attempted moon landing. Its payload would have been a world-first. Mortgage rates fall for the first time in 5 weeks, opening up a ‘window of opportunity ...