What led to the sudden decline of these magnificent machines after World War II? In the 1930s and early 1940s, flying boats were the undisputed kings of long-distance air travel. (ref) These ...

Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe to the Pacific ...

Earl Russell Fox was the last World War II veteran still on active ... He commanded patrol torpedo (PT) boats for much of the war, including PT-22s at Midway and in Alaska's Aleutian Island ...

Arthur Murray Preston ’31, a US Navy Lieutenant, who served as a World War II Torpedo Boat Commander (PT Boat). Richard H.

The Battle of the Atlantic lasted as long as World War Two itself. By the summer of 1942 one Allied ship was going down every four hours, yet German U-boat losses remained frustratingly low.

A Welshman's singing was used to keep morale high on the mission In one of World War Two's most daring raids, a captured Japanese fishing boat travelled 4,000 miles in 48 days to destroy seven ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

What characteristics define the best World War II movies? Is it the intensity and ... follows a dramatized version of a true story about PT boat Squadron 3 commander John D. Bulkeley (a Medal ...

Archive news footage shows the moment HMS Barham was struck by torpedoes in the Mediterranean during World War Two. The British Pathé ... captured the attack by a German U-boat on 25 November ...

It was something my late grandmother often said when, as a child, I asked about life in Norway during World War II. Sometimes ...

Oscar-submitted European films feature among this year's Seville program, one of the broadest in the Andalusian event's ...