I saw your article in today’s Gainesville Sun, encouraging your reader who inquired about his grandfather’s German WWI military medal to contact me for help in identifying it. You gave him my phone ...

In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...

Frederick Lois Riefkohl in 1911 (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) MELBOURNE, Fla. — Frederick Riefkohl was the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. A World War I hero who ...

Explorers say they've found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship's captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down ...

Thanks to modern technology, a long-held, local legend that a submarine is buried underneath Coronation Park in Dartmouth, England, has seemingly been confirmed as truth. Using ground radar to scan ...

LONDON, Aug. 28, 1908 (UP) - The astounding sum of $1,431,070,989 has been spent in the last three years on the navies of seven of the leading countries of the world, according to an estimate by the ...

Frederick Riefkohl, who eventually settled in Merritt Island, was the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. (Courtesy Photo) MELBOURNE, Fla. – Frederick Riefkohl was the first ...