In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato sailed on her last mission—Operation Ten-Go. Ordered to attack Allied forces at ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior, becoming the largest shipwreck on the Great Lakes and one of its most storied tragedies. News ...

An article about the Edmund Fitzgerald in Newsweek magazine and a wire service story are believed to have inspired Gordon Lightfoot to write his song. The song was released in August 1976 and had ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

It’s been 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald sank on the evening of Nov. 10, 1975 during a particularly rough storm on Lake Superior. There are no survivors or ...

The UPS aircraft’s voice and data recorders were recovered and could provide insights into what happened before and during the crash, which killed at least 13 people. By Kevin Williams and Jacey ...

"Wreck" is a heartfelt tale of family and life's surprises. "Wreck" by Catherine Newman, the New York Times bestselling author of "Catastrophic Happiness," "Waiting for Birdy," "We All Want Impossible ...

Fiftysomething mother and writer Rocky, the protagonist of Catherine Newman’s 2024 novel Sandwich and its new sequel, Wreck (out on Tuesday from HarperCollins), would likely laugh at my use of an ...

Inspired by the tourist popularity of a 1973 plane wreck on a remote beach, JS Watch presented a wristwatch to the pilot who made that emergency landing, saving everyone onboard By Christine Negroni ...

Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...

The Iowa class of battleships consists of a quartet of formidable ships: The USS Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and the namesake Iowa. Conceptually, they were intended as the perfect battleship, ...

A man has been charged with multiple counts of vehicular homicide after authorities said he drove his semitruck too close behind a van, triggering a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on a Georgia highway ...