They were pals in grade school. Even then, John Gary Gertsch “was looking for something,” said his friend Nick Petchel …

In 1901, a British admiral reportedly denounced submarines as “underhand, unfair and damned un-English.” At the 1921 Washington Naval Conference, …

On May 24, 1943, an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) formerly of the Waffen-SS and medically unfit for combat as the result of …

For sailor Horace Flack, the war started before he was old enough to enlist. Flack wasn’t 18 years old yet …

On June 6, 1984, as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of D-Day, a reenactment of the scaling of the …

Divided between British and Italian colonial empires in the 19th century, Somalia was never really conquered. Highly individualistic, with a …

Located 1,530 miles southeast of Miami, Fla., the island of Grenada was sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1498 on his …

“Oral histories are important because you can obtain information that is often not in documents,” said Robert Browning, Ph.D., chief …

On Aug. 4, 1790, President George Washington signed the Tariff Act establishing the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of what, …

When World War II started, Barnes Neville Wallis was assistant chief designer of aircraft at Vickers-Armstrong and respected for his …