The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...

The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II's most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for "an ...

During WWII, the British famously ran many spy operations. In fact, Ian Fleming based his most famous character, James Bond, on several people he knew during his time in the British Naval Intelligence ...

89-year-old Bernard Jordan returns to care home in "sparkling form." Bernard Jordan, gestures, as he is driven home after returning from Normandy on a Brittany Ferry, in Portsmouth, England, Saturday ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...