Besides warships many merchant ships were built at top speed in Britain's yards to replace the losses caused by German Submarines. Here is a...
A great "naval occasion" was the dramatic engagement between the "Admiral Graf Spee" and the British cruisers on December 13th, in which the...
During the week-end of November 18--21 six neutral ships were sunk by German mines off the English coast. The largest of these was the 12.000 ton...
One of the most shocking tragedies of the War occurred on November 18th 1939, when the Dutch liner “Simon Bolivar” struck a German mine in the...
New Nazi Frightfulness off Britain's Coasts A number of neutral ships sunk by German mines close into the English shore marked the opening of...
At the beginning of the war the King sent the following message to the British Merchant Navy and British Fishing Fleets: “In these anxious...
Over 30,000 seamen from the British merchant navy were lost between 1939 and 1945 and thousands more from the American and other Allied merchant...
News Source : World War II Mystery Solved: Australian Warship Found After 66-Year Search - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News The 1941...
On Friday September first 1939, I and many hundreds of children were assembled at Napier Rd School in East Ham and marched along the High Street...
At the outbreak of war, Éire was still a member of the then British Commonwealth but chose to remain neutral, the only such member state to do so....
The cruiser HMS Ajax (1) joins in a long-range gun duel with the German 152mm gun battery at Longues to the west of Port on Bassin. The guns at...
During the early part of World War II many merchant ships still travelled alone. Escorts were in short supply and air cover was restricted, so...
In December 1941 two major US forces posed a threat to Japanese plans for expansion into South East Asia and Indonesia: the Navy's Pacific fleet...
Thou i have had this dvd for quite a while i watched it for the first time last night, it was a little slow to start with thou i did get into it a...
Force `G', containing the ships carrying the assault waves to Gold Beach, arrived at the point from which the landing craft were to be launched...
The Battle of the Atlantic, a nautical campaign which lasted the duration of the war, started after the German invasion of Poland with the...
The Type 97 Chi-Ha was the most widely produced Japanese Medium Tank of WW2. It was used before, during and after WW2 in the Pacific War,...
Kapitanleutnant Engelbert Endrass Engelbert 'Bertl' Endrass was born in Bamberg on 2 March 1911. Another former officer in the Merchant Navy...
Kapitanleutnant Gunther Prien The first of Germany's great U-boat aces was born in Osterfeld on 16 January 1908. His naval career began when...
Taken from the Military intelligence service war department Washington, U.S Army Military History Institute 15th June 1943. Please see...