Navy divers finished recovering an estimated 250,000 gallons of oil Monday from a captured warship that survived World War II and two atomic bomb tests before sinking 72 years ago. The oil extraction ...
The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen survived intense combat during World War Two and was later seized by the United States as a war ...
After a month and a half, the Navy, in partnership with the Army and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, safely recovered oil from the capsized World War II German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in ...
A rolling rule, used as a navigational instrument by sailors of the Kriegsmarine during WWII, in heavy dark wood. It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from ...
The naval commander of the German warships finds no one to surrender to in Copenhagen, as the world celebrates victory in Europe Copenhagen, 7 May Germany’s last two seaworthy big warships, the ...
To say the end of World War II was hectic would be an understatement. Europe and a large portion of the Pacific Islands were left in shambles as Allied forces scrambled to pick up the pieces and ...
Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway with Prinz Eugen (Gneisenau had been badly damaged by an RAF attack on Kiel, and would not return to service).