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.

Whether any mines had been laid in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28 is unclear. The Pentagon said 140 American service members had been wounded, eight severely, in the war.

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 ...

As Enigma was broken and U-boats were hunted down, Germany turned to desperate coastal weapons meant to disrupt Allied ...

Between 1940 and 1960, teams of two paddlers raced down the Mighty Mississippi in stages from Bemidji to Minneapolis.

The gunboat sank during the Revolutionary War and wasn't found for 159 years. The Smithsonian is sprucing it up for America's 250th birthday.

While attending the private Harry Hillman Academy and City High School in Wilkes-Barre during the 1890s, Harold R. Stark was among the best male dancers among his classmates. The Sunday News ...

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 ...