On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...

The storm sank three freighters near Ludington, and killed as many as 50 duck hunters, who either drowned or froze to death ...

Burrard Dry Dock was famous for its Victory Ships, but it also made corvettes like this one that hunted for German U-Boats in ...

The Eisenhower program was hailed as a fix for the 1950s border crisis, but numbers may have been manipulated by immigration ...

The four merchant steamships — all laden with valuable iron ore — that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats in the waters off Lance Cove, Bell Island are a sombre reminder of how the ...

Only last year the Melbourne Pallottine order accept publicly the evidence that Silvester was not a U-boat captain and had ...

Toward the end of the First World War, the unarmed hospital ship Llandovery Castle was heading to England to pick up wounded ...

Yet, their stories rarely get as much airtime as Rosie’s more marketable (and literal) illustration of 1940s’ girlboss-ery ..

FDR’s Lend-Lease program during World War II threw our allies a lifeline. It signaled U.S. resolve before hostile powers ...

The Europeans settled the United States via waterborne transportation. Settlements, and then cities, first arose where there ...

Veteran Day 2024 is November 11. See photos of famous celebrities who served in the U.S. military over the years.

The bridge at Youghiogheny River Lake will no longer be open to the public. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh ...