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 ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

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 ...

The destroyer Jacob Jones (DD-61) sinks off the Scilly Islands, England, on Dec. 6, 1917, after she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-53. (Seaman William G. Ellis, Smithsonian Institution ...

A group of divers have explored the wreckage of a WW1-era Royal Navy submarine – 100 years after it sank. Dominic Robinson, 54, and a team of 10 dived 74m down to check out the century-old HMS M1 sub ...