The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...

At the onset of World War II, the Japanese heavy cruiser Maya represented the pinnacle of naval dominance, her formidable ...

Kiyohide Shima, and to the commander of the lead battle fleet, Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita, that he expected to enter Leyte Gulf at about 01:30 in the morning. “Several torpedo boats sighted ...

Apple scored a major film coup when it snagged the rights to Greyhound, the first film superstar Tom Hanks had ever released directly to a ...

World War II veteran Colin “Russ” Gibbins says he’s still “fighting fit”, even as he prepares to turn 100 this weekend.

Open sea lanes are necessary to US commercial shipping and trade (80% of global trade is by ocean) and to lines of ...

His tactics at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 broke the back of the remaining Japanese navy and led to the recapture of the Philippines. When Japan finally surrendered in 1945, Nimitz was ...

Anzac Day unites us as a nation – but it does so for uniquely personal reasons. Every single one of us will observe the ...