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

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

Though these ships are called “destroyers,” they are more like ... and shockingly have less than half the range of World War II–era cruisers of similar displacement. Placing a Burke into ...

Voris, who died in 2005 at the age of 85, arrived at this history-making assignment with impeccable credentials after ...

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...

When it comes to the US Navy and World War II, hundreds of ships and ... as opposed to previous destroyer classes, designed primarily for ship and shore bombardment. San Diego played a vital ...

The USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) was commissioned on Saturday, with one of the two ship sponsors being Richard’s ...

People were able to go aboard the World War II era USS LST 325 landing ship that was docked at the levee along the Ohio River ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year, with about 40,000 forces, at least a dozen warships and four Air Force fighter jet ...

Louis Gomez, 95, fought in World War II and developed cancer after serving near nuclear test sites in the Pacific Ocean. Now ...

When a vintage ukulele turned up in a Winston-Salem guitar shop bearing the name of a sailor who served in World War II, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is taking lessons from its combat in the Red Sea over the past year and what Ukraine has done to ...