The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

Japanese anti-aircraft fire is believed to have shot down the Heaven Can Wait, a B-24D Liberator bomber, in 1944.

A robotic survey beneath the Mediterranean near Malta was supposed to map the seabed. Instead, its cameras captured something no one expected buried in the sand.

The US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been helping lead search efforts after a World War Two B-17 bomber wreckage was ...

DPAA has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the WWII sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

On Friday, Jan. 23, while reading a devotional, I first read about a survivor of the Titanic, a man and his story that was ...

The 126-metre-long ship went down with all its cargo when it was bombed in World War II. Now its trucks and motorbikes are home to barracudas, sea turtles and reptilian-looking crocodilefish.

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

The Jake seaplane rests in shallow water off the coast of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. How it got there is a mystery ...

More than 80 years after it was sunk in combat, the German submarine U-864 remains a silent threat beneath the waters off ...

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's destroyed U-864 is toxic to this day.