The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

In the late 1940s, the US Navy performed an 80% weight loss that almost killed it—going from 6,700 ships down to barely 300. This massive fleet reduction was not a defeat, but a deliberate, sudden ...

Germany and the US built some of the largest aircraft in World War II, although many of their designs were unsuccessful.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The loss of a loved one in combat is difficult for any family, but imagine losing five brothers in battle at once. That was the fate of the Sullivan family of Waterloo during World ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — 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 ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial at ...