USS Buckley engaged in one of World War II’s most surreal naval battles with German submarine U-66. After bombarding the ...

A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...

The battle of Chouigui Pass in Tunisia, between the Germans and the Americans was their first conflict and it had occurred in a remote corner of Tunisia's countryside in the Mediterranean theatre of ...

In 1941, the Norwegian boat Arnefjord made a perilous 200-mile North Sea crossing, transporting refugees. 83 years later, it ...

Gary Norville runs American Aero Services at the city airport, restoring World War II vintage aircraft and other artifacts.

A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

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 ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

The German sub U-166 was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the spring of 1942 on a mission called Operation Drumbeat, the Nazi code name for submarine attacks on Allied shipping ...