Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

This was Iwo Jima, “Sulphur Island,” a vital steppingstone to the invasion of Japan. At dawn, Feb. 19, 1945, the first 26,000 of 70,000 Marines came ashore. They met little resistance – nothing like D ...

Kaneko said his father told him the boat was a cutter carried by the battleship Hiei of the Imperial Japanese Navy. “My father, who served in the war, said he bought the boat when he found it ...