The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ships and yet still was below the devastating 14:1 average of the early war years. But what did life look like ...

World War II began. Germany then had 57 U-boats in service ... "following orders," were convicted and executed. The captured U-505 and the American jeep carrier Guadalcanal.

The USS Esdall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

The discovery, announced Monday, has revealed the resting place of more than 200 servicemen who died three months after the ...

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi were identified more than 82 years following his death in ...

More than 200 servicemen were killed when the U.S.S. Edsall was struck by Japanese dive bombers in March 1942.

Displays here cater to all types of curious minds: Enjoy a tour of the only U-505 German submarine captured during World War II; feel the physics of a tornado in "Science Storms;" consider the ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...