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81 years after he was lost at sea, a funeral for a WWII veteran

Lieutenant Joseph LeRoy Burke was killed after spending years in a POW camp during World War II. His remains were finally ...
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Eighty-one years after he was lost at sea, a funeral for a WWII veteran

Lieutenant Joseph LeRoy Burke was killed after spending years in a POW camp. His remains were finally recovered last year.

Defending Australia: WWII heroes’ share incredible stories of survival to the next generation of service members

Mr Hughes, who is believed to be South Australia’s oldest survivor of a Nazi prisoner of war camp, was joined on stage for ...

That Time an Underwater Mountain Nearly Took Out a Nuclear Sub

In 2005, the USS San Francisco slammed full speed into a massive mountain under the Pacific. How the stricken vessel narrowly ...

A Ship at the Heart of a Deadly Naval Disaster Has Been Lost for 108 Years. Divers Just Found It.

The U.S. Coast Guard ship was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Britain in 1918.
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The ship accused of tearing apart World War II war graves for scrap

Authorities in Malaysia drew international attention in 2023 after detaining a salvage vessel linked to the illegal recovery ...

Wreck of deadliest US naval loss of World War I found after more than a century: 'Lost with all hands'

The Coast Guard announced the discovery of the cutter Tampa, whose 1918 torpedoing by a German U-boat represented the deadliest U.S. naval loss of World War I.

Rod Stewart Says Prince Charles Put 'Little Ratbag' Trump 'In His Place'

Rod Stewart is not mincing words about the president, especially in the company of British royalty. The rocker appeared to ...

Russia’s Famed Victory Day Falls Short of Triumph

Russia military capabilities today, four years since Vladimir Putin used Victory Day to justify the Russian invasion of ...