During the early years of World War II, the German navy launched daring raiding missions in the Pacific Ocean - far from the European front. Vessels like Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran struck ...

This undated photo shows an Eagle-class patrol boat built during World War I. It's similar to the Eagle PE-56, which exploded and sank off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on April 23, 1945, killing most of ...

(U.S. Navy photo) The German submarine U-405 was on a refueling run north of the Azores on the night of Oct. 31, 1943, when the Borie first made contact.

A German sailor shows off one of the cottages of the German Village, in the shadow of one of Norfolk Navy Yard’s cranes. (Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum) The pirates had turned into literal ...

But the Navy determined in 2001 that it had been sunk by a German submarine. The sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56 on April 23, 1945, was originally blamed on a boiler explosion.

British Royal Navy divers detonated at sea a huge 1-ton bomb Germany dropped on England during World War II. The detonation took place Friday off Essex at the end of a delicate six-day mission ...

The United States was still 3,000 miles and two years away from the horrors of the Great War in Europe during the spring of 1915. But when an audacious German commerce raider eluded its pursuers an… ...

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — A private dive team has located the last U.S. Navy warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles (kilometers) off the coast of Maine ...