fought at the Battle of Midway, the Eastern Solomons , and the Santa Cruz Islands, where on 24 October 1942 she took four Japanese bombs and three aerial torpedoes plus two suicide crashes by damaged ...

Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they launched another assault with plans to occupy Midway Atoll and … Continue reading "Little-Known Facts About The Battle Of Midway" ...

San Diego Museum Month is back for 2025, and participants can wander through a colorful camellia garden, stand at the ready ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier nicknamed “Fighting Lady,” earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation during World War II.

Meet the Midway-Class Aircraft Carrier: As the U.S. Navy tangled with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific during the Second World War, the era of carrier dominance was truly ...

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type of ship to supplement its supercarriers: Drone flattops. They would be crewed by robots and artificial intelligence, alongside human sailors ...

The Navy’s first unmanned tanker is set to come to an aircraft carrier in 2026, according to the commander of Naval Air ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. say it is time for the US Navy to field drone aircraft carriers. These drone carriers disperse combat power at less expense and with less crew. A fleet of drone carriers could ...

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, following a bilateral naval exercise with Washington's ally the Philippines. USS Carl Vinson ...