In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over ... One of the Polish aircraft, a PZL P.11c piloted by Captain Mieczyslaw Medwecki, was climbing to chase down German aircraft ...

"Bud" Anderson arrived in the European Theater of World War II in 1943, an experienced pilot ... He had entered combat as a captain at age 22; by the time he returned home in 1945, he was a ...

NBC News joined a NATO flotilla as it sailed the icy sea hunting Russian saboteurs accused of targeting undersea cables.

The history of Jews in the Hawaiian Islands, when they arrived, what happened during World War II, and what their lives are ...

The raucous musical “Operation Mincemeat,” one of the best-reviewed productions in West End history, is finally stateside—and ...

Members of the Royal Family has led tributes after the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, passed ...

Both countries have vast land armies, while Britain's Royal Marines are experts in Arctic ... the largest troop losses since the Second World War during its invasion. In an intelligence ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

When I was under daily attack from rockets and mortars as a royal marine in Afghanistan ... than at any time since the end of the Second World War in places like Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, Myanmar ...

The Humber is known to be "one of the most dangerous estuaries in the world," he says ... the potential to have significant impacts for marine life, and have been responsible for the some of ...

The man arrested by Humberside police is the captain of the Solong cargo ship ... to be "one of the most dangerous estuaries in the world," he says, and the North Sea has its "own challenges".