Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took ...

When the transport ship Jacob was bombed off New Guinea in March 1943, flames and explosions sent men leaping into the Pacific as the vessel began to sink. Private George Watson, a strong swimmer from ...

NEW YORK, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic underwater expedition in the South Pacific has yielded the final resting place of four WWII shipwrecks and their entombed crews. The discoveries ...

SYDNEY (AP) -- A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in ...

The USS Torsk, a historic submarine that's now a museum in Baltimore, was the last US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship until Operation Epic Fury.

The SS Red Oak Victory was one of hundreds of ships built in the Kaiser Shipyards in the 1940s, and, after serving a number ...

On most nights in Manhattan, when someone promises an “immersive experience,” it usually means a velvet rope, a signature cocktail, and a DJ playing something sounding suspiciously like the last three ...

Robert Firstman loved to tell stories. He started writing poetry in his late 90s and did 150 standing pushups at the kitchen counter every day, his family said. The former Massapequa resident was the ...