Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Roberts in his Sea Fury in the Yellow Sea Rear-Admiral John Roberts, who has died aged 101, was a naval airman and veteran of ...

Captain Rolfe Monteith, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 101, was one of the teenage Dominion volunteers who crossed the Atlantic to serve in the Second World War, and one of the last ...

The Battle of the Barents Sea should have been a triumph for Nazi Germany. Instead, it ended in the destruction of its surface fleet—and Admiral Erich Raeder’s career. New Year’s Eve 1942 was a ...

“The ship quickly broke into two parts. . . . In an effort to save the trio of men with them who could not swim very well, Higgins and Ordinary Seaman William Burras swam over to a coiled-up ...

Interestingly, it was the Kriegsmarine, with their larger force, that was on the attack—meaning that many of the advantages should have gone to them. British warships were charged with defending ...