I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may ...

Cooper went on to an outstanding career at Rhode Island State College (now URI ... The book “History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II” describes what followed.

Since 2019, Beijing has made particularly significant overtures in the Solomon Islands, from dispatching Chinese police officers to constructing a new stadium for the 2023 Pacific Games.

Solomon Islands Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade Peter Shanel and the Foreign Ministers and representatives from 10 other PICs are meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

One of the best-known names on the Solomon Islands tourism ... Plum Pudding Island, now known as Kennedy Island after former US President John F. Kennedy was shipwrecked there during WWII, offers a ...

LANSING — In the hard-fought campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II, 22-year-old Army Cpl ... shrapnel during a key battle on the island of Luzon. Van Der Noord survived ...