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 ...

In the early days of WW2 naval warfare, U.S. sailors doubted the thin-skinned destroyers entrusted to protect convoys and ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

An unrivaled sense of dread rushed over Thomas Cook as the Japanese plane closed in on the destroyer in the Pacific. Cook was standing on the deck of the USS Prichett during the Battle of Okinawa when ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 feet into one of the world’s deepest submarine chasms. The U.S.S. Johnston ...