Equipped with torpedoes, speed and agility, the CMB made for a highly efficient attack boat during WWI and beyond, influencing high-speed boat design across the world, including the much larger ...

One reason that people may assume the Spitfire was so prolific in the early stages of World War II may be due to the 1968 film Battle of Britain.Far more Spitfires were available for filming, and ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Talks continue over raising the “Spitfire,” a gunboat under Benedict Arnold’s command during the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776. Underwater archaeologist Art ...

One of the last surviving Dutch Spitfire pilots to join the Royal Air Force to fight in the Second World War has died, aged 99. Leo Hendrikx was one the final living Engelandvaarders - the ...