Brazilian Navy On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops during World War II. Now, more than 80 years later ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed the location of the sunken warship Vital de Oliveira. The vessel transported troops during ...

Atlanta World War II veteran Albert Henley ... rescue of hundreds of survivors of the sunken cruiser USS Helena while under attack from Japanese warships. Sturgess told Lanford that he remembered ...

"We're talking about millions of World War II munitions that were simply ... His research also shows that fish living near sunken warships exhibit significantly higher rates of liver tumors ...

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships ... led to the crippled cruiser being abandoned and sunk. Roberts fought on with what it had, firing 608 ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi ... Brazil entered World War II on the side ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...