A flying giant of its day - forgotten by history. The Fokker T.IV was an advanced long-range torpedo bomber when it entered ...

The Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger was developed as a critical replacement for the obsolete TBD Devastator, entering mass production in 1942 to bolster the U.S. Navy's capabilities during WWII. It was a ...

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When U.S. Navy warships began exploding in the middle of the night, America realized it had a problem. In the autumn of 1942, Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands near Australia, became the focal point ...

Explorers on a quest to study a famed wartime shipwreck site have discovered new artifacts from one lost American destroyer. The USS DeHaven, which was sunk during an attack off the Solomon Islands in ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Consigning patriotic young men to pilot unreliable torpedoes to their certain death was just one addition to the vast waste of Japan’s war effort. By 1944, Japan was ...

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A fisherman landed an explosive catch while out trawling for fish along the sea bed in Denmark that was later revealed to be an undetonated World War II torpedo. Danish fisherman René Kloster alerted ...

More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location has finally been confirmed, Brazil's navy has revealed. The historic vessel was ...