After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...
A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...
As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper ... as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting ...
A World War II-era flying boat made a stop in the Bay Area on Sunday as part of a highly anticipated trip to its new home: an aviation museum in Arizona. The Philippine Mars, a cargo ...
Several stories published in the Times Leader Evening News and the Wilkes-Barre Record beginning Feb. 13, 1945, and throughout the month announced Mr. Alan B. Cutting and his wife, Mary, of Kingston ...
Courtesy Brazilian Navy The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was ...
No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...