Italy’s Regia Marina was one of the busiest navies of the interwar period. Four old battleships were rebuilt so completely that they barely resembled their original configuration. This helped ...

Admiral Andrew Cunningham led a daring assault with HMS Warspite and a formidable British fleet to challenge the Italian Royal Navy near their own shores, aiming for a decisive blow early in Italy’s ...

However, a brilliant young engineer in Germany looked to take away control of the bomb from fate and give Germany a weapon of great power and unprecedented precision all the while keeping the valuable ...

There, the battleship remained until the end of World War II. In 1947, Italy rewarded the United States with the ship as a war prize to commemorate the new peace treaty between the two countries.

An Italian naval ship sunk in World War II was recently discovered and photographed by a team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The IT Artigliere was located in March under more than 12,000 ...

ROME (AP) – The Italian navy says the wreckage of the World War II battleship Roma, sunk by German planes 69 years ago with the loss of 1,352 lives, has been located north of Sardinia.

Originally published in Italian in 2008, and then revised in 2010, this lavishly illustrated volume is the first biography of the four ship Littorio Class, and thus fills an important need in the ...

Italy's Po River is facing its worst drought in ... which has caused a decades-old sunken ship to resurface. The Zibello, a 160-foot barge that transported wood in World War II and sank in ...

ROME (AP) — The Italian navy says the wreckage of the World War II battleship Roma, sunk by German planes 69 years ago with the loss of 1,352 lives, has been located north of Sardinia. The navy ...