Filmed in 1942, this video shows U.S. Navy salvage crews operating along the Atlantic coast, where divers and heavy cranes were deployed to locate and lift sunken wreckage. These efforts were critical ...

Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive ...

Many have tried to invade Russia in the middle of the winter. And all have failed. In a strange decision, the Soviets tried ...

At 17 years old, Joseph “Joe” Spotswood falsified his paperwork to join the Navy in 1944 as World War II was in full swing. He was aboard the USS Augusta during the Normandy invasion and took part in ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A rare World War II Navy dive bomber that was stripped, burned and dumped in Lake Washington during the 1940s returned to the skies July 19 after a decades-long journey from ...