Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British “Town” class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when World War II began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the U.S. and Japanese navies and primarily designed for the defense of trade, they saw arduous service in a wide range of ...
Following the success of his first book about a U.S. Navy flight crew's desperate battle to survive a 1978 ditching in the icy north Pacific, Andrew Jampoler has turned to an equally exciting Navy adventure set in the desert of Ottoman Syria more than one hundred fifty years ago. Ordered to fix the exact elevation of the Dead Sea and ...
Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air ...
Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger was determined to return home. In order to do this, though ...
Today these plans form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich ...