From the towering steel giants of the early 1900s to the sleek, radar-guided behemoths of World War II, battleships were the ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S. forces deployed ships from southern Indiana to the Pacific ...

In the wake of the Russian Empire’s humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), the Gangut-class was presented as the answer to many of Russia’s naval problems. In that war with the Empire ...

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 ...

Image Credit: RIA Novosti - CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wiki Commons. World War II wasn’t just fought by men and women on the front lines, it was also defined by the machines they rode, drove, and sailed into ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.