Retired Adm. Barry K. Atkins, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while commanding what many military historians believe was the only U.S. Navy destroyer to sink an enemy ...

Retired Admiral Barry K. Atkins, who was at the command when his destroyer sunk a Japanese battleship in a historic World War II battle, died Tuesday. He was 94. Atkins, a 1932 Naval Academy graduate ...

On a coastal town in England yesterday, mourners paid their respects at a funeral for Eileen Nearne, 89, who told very few people that, during World War II, she was a spy.

These 5 female spies helped win World War II. ... Atkins sent Khan to France, where she eluded arrest by moving frequently from one hideout to another. By September 1943, ...

The role of women as spies during World War II. ... Atkins eventually traced all 117 and brought their killers to war crimes trials. Atkins was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1948, ...

It couldn’t have been comforting for a few civilian women in World War II-era England to learn the spy agency they’d just been recruited to was run by people who were figuring it out as they went.