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Four days in December: Germany’s path to war with the US

Adolf Hitler and other German leaders so thoroughly expected the Reich to fight America that, after the initial delighted outburst, they gave Pearl Harbor scarcely a thought.

By Gerhard L. Weinberg, HistoryNet

5 years ago

Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier, others

Seized ship sold, towed from American Samoa

By Navy Times staff

6 years ago

Explainer: How the pain of 9/11 still stays with a generation

As we reflect on the anniversary of this tragic event, a question to consider is: How has this event impacted those individuals who are too young to remember a world before 9/11?

By Dana Rose Garfin, University of California, Irvine

6 years ago

Globetrotting Leviathan: Graf Zeppelin’s amazing voyage

One of the Americans on board the blimp was future Vice Adm. Charles E. Rosendahl, the U.S. Navy’s top airship man.

By Eric Niderost, Aviation History

6 years ago

Dead by their own hands: Why the Germans scuttled a fleet

Just a few fathoms below Scapa Flow’s dark surface lie the remains of a navy — four battleships and four light cruisers of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by their own crews in 1919 in the largest act of self-destruction in naval history.

By Mark T. Simmons, Military History

6 years ago

Twin brothers reunited 74 years after WWII death at Normandy

For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred.

7 years ago