Laid at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, 15 mines take out two ships and damage three others June 15-17, 1942 in the most successful German U-boat mine-laying operation carried out in U.S. water… ...

Heat Wave Reveals German Mines, ... A bomb disposal technician steadies an unexploded 1,100-pound bomb from World War II after its deactivation on April 20, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...

Germany ; Germany Has to Clear Seabed of WWII Mines for Wind Turbines. Published May 07, 2015 at 10:32 AM EDT Updated Mar 28, 2016 at 1:15 PM EDT. By Charles Hawley . Newsweek ...

A British fishing trawler accidentally caught an antique German sea mine. The mine, dating to World War II, still packed a 750-pound explosive charge.; Royal Navy divers blew up the bomb at sea.

Two anti-tank mines from World War II have exploded spontaneously in the ground next to a road in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. Fortunately, nobody has been hurt so far. Experts are ...

“Land of Mine” is a fictionalized version of a neglected piece of postwar history, detailing the often-ruthless practice of using World War II German prisoners to defuse land mines. It’s in ...