Scuttling is when a ship's crew intentionally sinks a ship themselves, and it happened a lot during WWII to ensure ships didn ...

In September 1939, the HMS Oxley became the first Allied submarine sunk in WWII, torpedoed by the friendly submarine HMS ...

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight ...

To protect the structural integrity of the deteriorating USS Arizona, the U.S. Navy just removed about 150-tons from its ...

A weathered anti-aircraft cannon, military motorbikes and armoured personnel carriers covered in sediment, and, in between, colourful fish greet us at this wreck. It's the remains of the SS ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Abe Peck lives in Santa Barbara but is a professor emeritus in service at the Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern ...

Sunday is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, marking nearly 85 years since the USS Arizona was sunk, on a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would “live in infamy.” And, it turns out, the ship ...

In 1944, two years after the attack, the USS California returned to her combat fleet. The Department of War said the battleship participated in the battles of Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Surigao Strait, ...

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii was shattered by one of the most devastating surprise attacks in American history. Japanese forces struck the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, killing ...