In this week's Texas Minute history column, Ken Bridges looks at the life and legacy of Admiral Chester Nimitz.

A 103-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant commander has been sharing stories with Guernsey's Lieutenant Governor of his service ...

With so many naval movies having been made, some still end up being quite fictional. There is one movie, though, that many ...

An organization hopes to commemorate the 1942 sinking of an American destroyer, the first to be sunk after Pearl Harbor.

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

Ultimately, the last surviving ship of the Imperial German Navy was sold for scrap ... upon to identify abandoned vessels. During World War II, thousands of ships were disabled, sunk or ...

Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North ... Jester — who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II — are buried at Arlington National ...

World War II submarines usually had a distinct look, shaped more like boats than the conventional crafts. But was there a ...

The 4,400 Canadian sailors, merchant mariners and air crew who lost their lives in the longest continuous military campaign ...

That same day, however, the Royal Navy suffered ... and sunk by German battleships, resulting in over 1,500 British deaths. Questions still linger over why such a vital ship was left vulnerable ...

President Reagan’s goal of a 600-ship navy is ... faster than German submarines could sink them. A similar mass production approach led to the overwhelming number — more than 49,000 — of M-4 Sherman ...