On December 10, 1942, as the Pacific erupted into a critical front of World War II, British Force Z ventured into the South ...

This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to ...

capturing over 150 British merchant ships worth $2 million. But the British took heart from the land war, which seemed to be going their way with very little effort expended. With the help of ...

As the U.S. Army commemorates its 250th birthday, historic U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn stands as a visible ...

Huntington Ingalls in Pascagoula will build all four new ships – three San Antonio-class landing ... away from World War II-style beach assaults and devote the amphibs to their less dangerous ...

If the Germans could use their brand-spanking new navy to stop that, sinking ships and cutting off supply lines, they could starve Britain out of the war. So, the British Navy had one clear goal ...

HMCS Nanaimo was paid off for disposal at Esquimalt in the fall of 1945 and sold for mercantile use, converted to a whale ...

Forty-eight crew were killed when the Sir Galahad, an unarmed and undefended supply ship carrying British ... their supplies to shore was on the Sir Tristram - but he sent one of the two landing ...

Massachusetts was the site of various battles during the Revolutionary War, many of which will celebrate their 250th anniversary ... Eventually, a British ship named "Diana" got stuck in Chelsea ...

In 1942 they brought hundreds of slave and forced workers to the island to expand the defences - many which dated to the ...