What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service ...

During the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, U.S. forces sank the ships. It was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, ...

Cox USN (Ret), the Director of Naval History and Heritage Command, and Curator for the US Navy ... Of the thousands of Navy ships in service during World War II, the USS Stewart may have one ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

The wreckage of a US Navy submarine that sank the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been found in the South China Sea, some 80 years after it was sunk by enemy forces. The USS Harder ...

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

Taiwan was a Japanese colony before being unified with China at the end of World War II. It split away in 1949 when Chiang ...

World War II may have ... aircraft have against warships. The test embarrassed the Navy and its significance was hotly debated, making it one of the earliest examples of US military inter-service ...

With a garrison of 240 men from the US Army's 59th Coastal Artillery Regiment and armed to the teeth with massive coastal artillery guns, Fort Drum was known as a "concrete battleship." ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...