The USS Yorktown (CV-5) sank at the pivotal Battle of Midway. However, before CV-5 slipped beneath the waves, she and her ...

USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, had a storied career that significantly impacted U.S.

Today, launching rockets from ships is commonplace, but one ship from 1945 paved the way for these innovations. Here's the ...

Germany and the Netherlands are banking on a European Union project to field a workable defensive system for surface ships by ...

For the rest of his life, the Blue Angel pilots who came after him viewed Voris with reverence -- and with good reason.

After World War II, navies grappled with surplus battleship hulls and considered converting them into "battlecarriers"—hybrid ...

During World War II, the United States displayed an impressive naval fleet, with numerous ships playing critical roles in the conflict. Among them, a select few distinguished themselves as the most ...

The U.S. Navy has named many ships after states, cities, towns, and places in the United States, including Pennsylvania. (In ...

After the war ended in 1945, Hibray flew over Hiroshima to view the devastation and into Osaka, where he purchased an Arisaka ...

Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like ...

George Lutza grew up on the West Side of Youngstown. As a senior at Chaney High School in 1943, he turned 18 that May, but ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...