Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

Being a Baby Boomer, World War II was not some abstract occurrence that I learned about in school or from the movies. I heard ...

Boxy, slow, and oddly shaped—the Bishop wasn’t built for elegance. But in 1942, Britain needed firepower fast, and this ...

As more people leave the island, one organizer said the game was important “to make sure our kids and future generations know ...

A team of Czech divers and historians has successfully documented the wreck of the Italian transport ship Firenze, sunk by a Greek submarine during World War II. The expedition, led by the Czech ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and ...

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

Devastated by the deaths of the two men, Kurihara swore off camp politics and spent most of his time alone, reading his Bible ...

On July 1, former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was convicted on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and ...

Anti-tourism protests are erupting around the world, from Mexico City riots to coordinated community protests in Europe. The ...