February 1943. In the icy North Atlantic, German U-boats encircled Convoy ON-166, 63 ships hauling vital cargo from America to Britain. What should’ve been an easy slaughter turned into a nightmare.

The story of the Convoys is a tale of compelling drama, full of bravery and tragedy. It takes us into the lives of hundreds of thousands of unheralded men whose incredible everyday courage, played out ...

This video, an overview of the Allied efforts in the North Atlantic and North Africa, was compiled from original video footage to accompany The Price of Freedom: Americans at War online exhibit and is ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The disaster also created one of World War II’s most enduring symbols of valor, ...

High on a ladder in the British Admiralty’s war room stood a WREN (British WAVE), sticking pins in a map which marked the progress of a North Atlantic convoy. A crusty British sea lord stalked in, ...

In December 1941 the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the USA into the Second World War. With the help of America, Britain hoped her fortunes would change in the Atlantic and the ...

The man who brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic. Wiry Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles (rhymes with Hellas), C.B., had left ...