Five years after its release, a thrilling World War 2 naval epic starring Tom Hanks has just crossed a very impressive new ...

War movies have been around for almost as long as the art of cinema itself. But few films actually convey what it’s really like to wage war. Warfare proved to be a rare exception when it debuted in ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...