Former Friars great rejoins the basketball program as an assistant coach; and 12 stunning spots to photograph in RI this ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

Operation Chariot has been considered the most significant raid in British military history. The amphibious attack had little ...

A spin around Subic Bay in a “banca,” a rickety wooden boat with a two-man crew ... In the midst of the war games, U.S. Naval Institute News reported plans to modernize and enlarge a small Philippine ...

Bargeron, left, commander, 3d Marine Division and U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Benjamin T. Watson, commander, 1st Marine Division, participate in a tour of Naval Detachment Oyster Base, Ulugan Bay ...

American GI's pictured in Derry with local Children In Ebrington Square on May 17, BOA80 will recreate scenes from the international base ... U-boat fleet and the conclusion of World War II.

Doenitz knew that the convoy system licked the U-boats in World War I. When he was building his fleet for World War II, he guessed that ... when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast ...

Meanwhile, the UAW has announced a May 18 strike deadline for 2,500 workers at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton ... of Democracy, the World War II reference to US military production ...

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

Chinese forces repeatedly harass Philippine vessels near Second Thomas Shoal, deploying water cannons, ramming supply boats ... Since World War II, U.S. forces have relied on Filipino sailors ...

As World War I raged in 1914, Germany secured key Belgian ports, using them as U-boat bases to threaten British waters. The Royal Navy faced relentless attacks and by 1917, desperately sought a ...

At the heart of the battle against the Kriegsmarine U-Boats was Derry ... about how the port on the Foyle was chosen as a key base and was critical to combat this threat. Narrated by Coleraine ...