If the Navy wants to replace the aircraft carrier as its primary power projection platform—as it should, considering the carrier’s weaknesses—it should look forward, not backward.

In late 1944, during the intense Battle of Leyte Gulf - the largest naval conflict of World War II - the USS Princeton was actively ... the only one the ship ever endured, ignited a raging fire ...

Born in Great Falls, Fogarty enlisted to join the Navy during World War II. But because he already ... and another aboard the USS Iowa battleship. But his destiny led him to the “Silent Service ...

1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee ... 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau ...

Thursday, May 8, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. The war reshaped Europe and the world from ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Less than one percent of Americans who served during World War II are still alive today, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. One of those veterans is here in ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty ... U.S. Navy call the “sacrificial captain” of a ship of war. Rather than confess to systemic woes that ...

A crew researching an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II made a remarkable ... found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously ...