On December 31st, 1942, six British destroyers charged directly at a German heavy cruiser and pocket battleship in the Arctic darkness — and won. This is the Battle of the Barents Sea, where Captain ...

Germany had tasted Naval dominance, and it had liked it. Just before World War 1, the German High Seas Fleet was the second most powerful navy in the world. Wielding a fearsome force with over 16 ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a high-altitude interceptor known as the Blohm & Voss BV 155. An agreement on ...

A large number of Germans evidently are “homesick” for Hitler, it was revealed today. Results of a survey of 5,000 West Germans. it was reported, indicated that about 70 percent of West German workers ...

Chancellor Adolf Hitler tonight assumed personal command of all Germany’s armed forces, named his chief aide, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, a field marshal, and announced a drastic shake-up in the German ...

Late Wednesday night last week Franklin Roosevelt called up members of his Cabinet to tell them that he had just received a message from Berlin so important that the usual Friday Cabinet meeting would ...

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For the first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before ...

Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...