Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Nazi government needed time to negotiate the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which allowed new battleship construction. Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...

The battleship Tirpitz, Germany’s largest and warship of WWII, was an enormous threat to Allied naval operations. In response ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German battleships closed in at more than at thirty knots. The British destroyers attempted to lay smoke to cover the carrier’s withdrawal, but it was too late.

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War ...

On this date in history: In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia. In 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for his adhesive tape, which was later ...

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn't only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War ...