During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, a German U-boat attack turned the Irish Sea into a graveyard, claiming over 500 lives in ...

Blinded after an accident at age 5, Ralph Teetor was determined to pursue engineering. His inventions have filtered into ...

WWI pilots were known for their aerial combat skills and were called aces. This Belgian ace did one impressive feat during ...

It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

A rare World War II-era TBM Avenger torpedo bomber will take to the skies over Fauquier County on Saturday, July 12, offering rides for aviation fans and history buffs alike.

In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

As an actress, she was known as the “most beautiful woman in the world” during the 1940s. Lamarr was also a technological ...

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

The centerpiece of the memorial honoring submariners lost during World War II which was removed from Mountwood Park in May to ...