So, only the Merchant Navy's emblems on uniforms, and the commission of the serving officer, were to be worn. On meeting my husband after an Atlantic run through a convoy, he told me how he had ...

Ther food I had at school before I joined the Navy wasn't as nice. Our uniform in the Navy it was quite fun it was very coarse for coarse. It was the bell bottom trousers and the usual Navy uniform.

The Scirè began its service for the Italian navy in 1938. It was a short range vessel capable of traversing 3,180 nautical miles at up to 14 knots on the surface and 74 nautical miles at 4 knots ...

Former Navy radioman Peter Orlando has a clear memory of June 6, 1944, when American soldiers waded ashore in World War II to liberate Europe from the Nazis.

During World War II, Frank Ellis Sublett became one of the first 13 African-Americans commissioned as Navy officers, a turning point in the military’s history of segregation. Sublett was the … ...

William ‘‘Bud’’ Liebenow, the World War II naval lieutenant who guided his small vessel into Japanese territory to rescue John F. Kennedy and his crew after their boat PT-109 had sunk ...

The Navy retired the "bucket" cover on Wednesday, ending the 78-year run for the staple of the female officer and chief petty officer uniform.

An Italian man became the nation’s oldest graduate after passing his final exams at the age of 96, Reuters reported. World War II veteran Giuseppe Paterno completed his undergraduate degree in ...

Colin Firth looks dapper while taking on the role of an intelligence officer in newly-released images from the upcoming World War Two drama film Operation Mincemeat. Joined by his co-stars Matthew ...

The U.S. Army's new uniform may look a lot like the iconic pinks-and-greens worn during World War II, but senior leaders decided to drop the pinks and go with Army Greens as the official name.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in ...

The Army now has more four-star generals serving on active duty than the Army and Air Force combined had during World War II.. Army Col. Christopher Coglianese, the chief of Future Operations at ...