American troops were facing an impossible enemy—German heavy armor like the Panther and Tiger. But in the late days of WWII, ...

On July 6, 1971, HMS Cavalier and HMS Rapid, two veterans of the Royal Navy, met off Scotland's Firth of Forth for a historic showdown. That morning, both ships set off in a 64-mile-long race. The air ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...