The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and strike capabilities. Not wanting to be viewed as the ‘sick man’ of the Axis ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Italian navy began World War II with one of the most modern fleets of battleships in the world. Italy’s Regia Marina was one of ...

Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick fighters in public hospitals, and ran first-aid centers of their own.

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, the infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence briefing. The reports detailed British troop positions, supply routes, ...

Trieste is the largest combat vessel delivered to the Italian Navy since World War II. On Dec. 7, 2024, the Italian Navy commissioned its new Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) Trieste, the largest combat ...