A man who served in the Royal Navy during World War Two has celebrated reaching his 100th birthday. Alastair Paterson of Fife ...

She also served as a support vessel for notorious battleship Tirpitz. It was in Norway that ... on the Thames and opened as a museum ship, like HMS Belfast or the Cutty Sark.

The Operation Chariot memorial will feature a representation of HMS Campbeltown, which was used in a mission to ram docks at Saint-Nazaire in a bid to restrict the use of the German battleship Tirpitz ...

The raid saw a former US Navy destroyer, renamed HMS Campbeltown, packed with explosives and rammed ... St. Nazaire was the only dry dock capable of servicing the German destroyer, Tirpitz, sister ...

The vessel – an Astute-class submarine which is currently under construction in Barrow-in-Furness – was due to be named HMS Agincourt after an English victory over the French in 1415.

Ordinary Telegraphist Bill Johns, HMS Prince of Wales After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor incapacitated the US Pacific Fleet in December 1941, Japan was able to pursue its other military ...

Players: Allies: General Richard O'Connor's Western Desert Force (renamed 13th Corps on 1 January 1941) consisting of 7th Armoured Division, 4th Indian Division (until December 1941) and 6th ...

Indeed, human lives—and even history itself—would not be the same without the intervention of certain animals. Some have shown such heroic qualities that they have helped us in wars, in major ...

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