The tanker Dixie Arrow was among the ships targeted by German U-boats off North Carolina in WWII. It was hit by a U-boat ...

In the early morning hours of July 25, 1943, a German submarine fired on the old Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant in Kure Beach. Or maybe it didn't.

During World War II, German U-boats threatened to cut off Britain’s supply lines across the Atlantic, sinking thousands of Allied merchant ships. To counter this threat, the Royal Air Force deployed ...

The sinking of Iran's IRIS Dena by a US submarine marked a significant event, with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth calling it the first enemy ship sunk by a torpedo since WWII. This incident raised ...

In 1942, a German U-boat torpedoed the British liner Laconia — only to discover it carried Allied prisoners of war. In an extraordinary act, the submarine surfaced and began rescue operations. What ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

The marker placement is an America 250 World War II Wilmington activity of the WWII Wilmington Home Front Heritage Coalition.

World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

After World War II, the U.S. faced a monumental logistics problem across the entire Pacific: getting rid of nine million tons ...

A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the Pentagon said.

Royal Marine veteran Joseph Douglas Cheshire, who has just turned 102, got parental consent and joined just after his 17th ...

Reports on March 4, 2026, revealed that a U.S. Navy submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena using a torpedo in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka. A torpedo is a powerful underwater missile used in ...