On the night of March 26, 1941, six Italian naval commandos launched a daring raid against the heavily defended Allied anchorage at Souda Bay, Crete. Slipping past patrols, searchlights, and three ...

Summary and Key Points: The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, although less famous than Iowa-class battleships, played a key role in World War II by protecting U.S. Navy carrier groups and bombarding ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

USS Baltimore primer: During the Second World War, the U.S. Navy’s Baltimore-class heavy cruisers became the first of their kind to be designed without the limitations of the London Treaty. Outlined ...

At dawn on October 25, 1944, the U.S. Navy escort-carrier group “Taffy 3” sighted the Imperial Japanese Navy’s remaining battleship fleet approaching from the northern horizon off Samar—four ...

Herewith is a summary of the five naval battles which have been fought off the Solomons since the initial attack on Tulagi: Battle of Savo Island. On the night of Aug. 8-9, the Japs caught a U.S.