Barely three days after the shock of Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese forces were back, striking hard to destroy any ...

(CNN) — The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. More than 80 years ago, the ...

The new Hornet had a distinguished World War II career that included the invasion of Saipan and the Battle of the Philippine ...

This image provided by the U.S. National Archives shows a scan of a photo of a Japanese Zero fighter plane hitting the USS Missouri in waters off Okinawa, Japan on April 11, 1945. (U.S. National ...

Most recent aircraft carriers have been named for US presidents—but this is not a hard and fast rule, and many other ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...

Henry joined the Navy as soon as he graduated from high school in 1944. A few months later, he was on a troop carrier in the South Pacific as a fireman first class.

A United States warship recently conducted a rearm-at-sea operation, demonstrating the Navy's capability to sustain combat power during a potential war with China in the vast Pacific. The destroyer ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed ...