That night, the Hunley mortally wounded the Union's USS Housatonic ... one of the greatest tragedies of World War 1 happened ...

A wreck discovered off the Aberdeenshire coast is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship sunk by a torpedo during World War One. HMS Hawke was discovered by a team of divers about 70 miles east ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...

The entry of the Americans in 1918 utterly changed the complexion of the fighting on the Western Front. The horrible stalemate of the preceeding years, in which the two sides traded millions of ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 5:05 PM EST For the first time in 107 years ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

As the U.S. military recruited young men for service, civilians were called upon to do their part by buying War bonds, donating to charity, or, if they worked in industry, going that extra mile for ...

The USS Midway is one of these affiliated sites that offers an insider's look into what is normally closed off to the public. The USS Midway is the longest-serving American aircraft carrier of the ...

A submersible has dived to the world’s deepest-known shipwreck. The vessel reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km (4 miles) beneath the waves in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean.