USS H-3 being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay on April 6, 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.

The European Union border agency Frontex is focusing surveillance efforts on the Greek island of Crete. Migrant crossings ...

The USS Massachusetts is largely believed to be the ship that fired the last shot of World War II. Here's what happened to ...

Underwater archaeologists have located a World War II B-17 in the Baltic Sea, and recovered artifacts may help identify the ...

Cargo submarines have been proposed and used in limited wartime roles, from German blockade-running concepts to WWII resupply missions and specialized U-boat tankers. Postwar proposals ranged from ...

During World War II, Allied ships sailed through the Arctic to deliver vital supplies to the Soviet Union. Facing German U-boats, bombers, and brutal polar storms, British and American sailors kept a ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

On February 19, 1942, with the stroke of a pen, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. In a single act, the lives of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese ancestry were ...

A researcher is hoping the remains of Orlan Robert Cool, killed when his ship broke apart off the coast of Newfoundland, will ...

There have been so many World War II movies made over the years, but only a few perfect ones, including classics like The ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Friday it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea. U.S. Southern Command said on social media the boat ...

The U.S. military blew up an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing two “narco-terrorists” and leaving one survivor. The vessel was operated by a designated terrorist ...