Visitors aboard the USS Alabama learned about prisoner of war camps in the United States during a recent Snowbird lecture at Battleship Memorial Park.

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for shielding more than 200 Jewish Americans in a ...

Finance and sales outfit Global Constellation has closed a raft of key international deals on Daniel Fahre’s World War II ...

Explore the rise of the Scharnhorst-class battleships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, from their engineering under Versailles restrictions to their strategic impact in World War II, sinking over 115,000 ...

It fired the first US 16-inch shell of World War II, and the last 16-inch shell of the war overall. The battleship is now a museum where visitors can tour once top-secret areas. The USS Massachusetts ...

In February 1942, German battleships Shanho and Gnisau executed the audacious Channel Dash, evading the Royal Navy and RAF in a high-risk operation. Despite mine damage and relentless British attacks, ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday the Navy will build a new class of battleships called the Trump class, with the first ship to be named USS Defiant (BBG-1). The ship will displace more than ...

At dawn on May 24th, 1941, the Royal Navy’s flagship and symbol of sea power, HMS Hood, met the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the frigid waters of the Denmark Strait.

When Nazi Germany overran Denmark in April 1940, the Danish colony of Greenland was suddenly cut off from its government. Under an April 9, 1941, defense agreement, the United States assumed ...

After the outbreak of World War II, Norway became a target for nazi Germany due to its important strategic position. A shot of the tower of Austrått Fort (Photo: Battlefieldsww2.com). As soon as it ...

Libia Yamamoto was 7 years old on January 3, 1943, when local police came to her home in Chiclayo, Peru and arrested her father, Saburo Maoki, who worked on a sugar plantation. "They banged on the ...

The Second World War was one of the most destructive periods in human history. But, from a technological point of view, the build-up to the war and its aftermath were one of the most fruitful periods ...