December 31st, 1942. As German heavy cruisers closed in on a small Allied convoy in the Barents Sea, the destroyer HMS Achates made a desperate charge. She laid a smokescreen and drew the enemy’s fire ...

On April 9, 1940, the Battle of Drøbak Sound marked the commencement of World War ii in Western Europe. A German fleet, led by the cruiser Blücher, sought to invade Norway by seizing Oslo. The Germans ...

Navy divers finished recovering an estimated 250,000 gallons of oil Monday from a captured warship that survived World War II and two atomic bomb tests before sinking 72 years ago. The oil extraction ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Nazi government needed time to negotiate the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which allowed new battleship construction. Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of ...