In 1984, Iraq initiated the “tanker war” with Iran when its air force attacked oil tankers bound for Iranian ports. The tanker war continued for years, and eventually involved the US Navy when, on May ...

DPAA has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the WWII sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

They did not count on MacArthur and his brilliant Inchon landing, with US forces eventually making it all the way up to the Yalu River and the Chinese border. Saddam also belittled American military ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

The USS Massachusetts is largely believed to be the ship that fired the last shot of World War II. Here's what happened to ...

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.

The name Matagorda usually lands on a map, not a ship’s stern, but in World War II it did both. USS Matagorda took its name from Matagorda Bay and went ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), a nuclear-powered supercarrier which is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, is anchored in the Bay of Palma after arriving to Palma de Mallorca on October 3, ...

Eight of the United States Navy's 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are named to honor former presidents, even as just six ...

San Diego has unveiled a permanent tribute to one of its most iconic landmarks, renaming a stretch of a downtown roadway Midway Place in honor of the USS Midway Museum. The newly designated Midway ...

Although “aircraft carriers” come in many sizes and shapes, the largest and most advanced supercarriers all fit a pattern—carved out by the US Navy for others to emulate. Modern aircraft carriers are ...