In the icy chaos of the Baltic Sea during the final months of World War II, the cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff attempted a ...

It remained active until it was attacked on the night of July 19, 1944, by the German Navy, becoming the only Brazilian ...

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket, the first man-made object to reach space.Designed and built at the Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II, the V-2 was ...

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

Photographer Jeff Rease has spent the last three years taking portraits of World War II veterans around the world ... he was brought aboard a Japanese prison ship, also known as a 'hell ship.' ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

"I thought the whole ship was intact by the way it was twisting ... to one of the military's most dangerous jobs during World War II. Raley would later serve in the Korean and Vietnam wars and ...