Comfortable, stable, and remarkably forgiving to fly, the Fairey Fulmar earned an unusual reputation among wartime aircraft, ...

Key Point: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck was on a roll. The ...

Hitler's Lost Battleship' How did a squadron of British Swordfish torpedo bombers manage to disable the most formidable ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck ...

Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...

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It was a dramatic David and Goliath clash – a single man in a flimsy biplane taking on one of the biggest battleships ever built. Yet against the odds that man, Lieutenant Commander John “Jock” Moffat ...

On this date in history: In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia. In 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for his adhesive tape, which was later ...

The Royal Navy pilot took on the fearsome battleship with only his flimsy Swordfish fighter plane A BRIT war hero who single-handedly took on Germany’s most fearsome warship has died at the age of 97.

The end of the Age of the Battleship appears to have been called prematurely as the Trump administration, as part of its Golden Fleet US Navy reform, says it is reviving the giant battlewagons in the ...