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 and ...

Kings and Generals presents a new documentary on the lesser-known German naval operations in the Pacific during World War II. This episode focuses on commerce raiders like Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and ...

For a brief period during World War I, “over there” became “over here.” More specifically, it was the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where German sailors tried to wait out British ships off the coast of the ...

More than 70 years after the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it’s still hard for many Americans to imagine what the world was like before we fought alongside Britain in two brutal wars ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows an Eagle class patrol boat built during World War I. It is similar to the USS Eagle PE-56, which exploded and sank off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on ...

As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U-boat in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1943, the sailors on the Navy destroyer braced for impact. Turbulent waters in the north Atlantic Ocean negated ...