World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to 1945) saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans — ...

NEW YORK -- Police divers were expected to begin raising the wreckage Saturday of a vintage World War II plane that crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, killing the pilot.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A rare World War II Navy dive bomber that was stripped, burned and dumped in Lake Washington during the 1940s returned to the skies July 19 after a decades-long journey from ...

Nearly eight decades after he disappeared in a World War II plane crash over Burma, the remains of a Pennsylvania airman have been identified, paving the way for the hero's long-awaited burial at ...

Mervyn Earl Sims, an Army private who died in a plane crash 68 years ago in the Himalayas, came home to Petaluma on a gray, rainy Wednesday afternoon. Chrome-helmeted motorcyclists with the Healdsburg ...

More than 30 shipwrecks have been discovered hidden in a lake in Germany, officials announced this week, including one vessel believed to be a steamer that was destroyed by an air raid in World War II ...

An underwater look at wrecks that rest only miles apart in the Gulf of Mexico. The Robert E. Lee, a passenger steamer that was attacked en route from New Orleans to Trinidad, is seen in this image ...

Col. Joe Peterburs flew the same aircraft type he piloted during WWII. "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir reported on a remarkable moment as a 100-year-old World War II fighter pilot returned to ...