At the start of WWII, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s aircraft carriers were among the most powerful tools of war in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan launched a ...

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

What would happen if a modern U.S. supercarrier faced the entire Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II? This thought ...

The battle of Midway unfolded over several days in early June 1942, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. U.S. Navy ships defeated a ...

Born in 1901, Disney was too young to fight in World War I and too old by the time the United States entered World War II. After the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor, Disney vowed that 90% of ...

Navy pilot Arthur Hibray came back from World War II with a souvenir Japanese military rifle. But the weapon went missing shortly after his return from the war. Decades later, his son Blake Hibray ...

A group of underwater explorers discovered a long-lost sunken World War II Navy warship. The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele sank off Okinawa in 1945 after being hit by two kamikaze attacks. Insider ...

A U.S. Navy destroyer that was sunk during World War II, claiming the lives of 84 American sailors, has been found off the coast of Japan, officials have confirmed.

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway, including the first up ...

An unexploded American 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 ...

Just 34 days before the end of World War II, a U.S. Navy cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea. The USS Indianapolis had been the ship of state of President ...

The U.S. Navy Chief of Information on Saturday moved to properly recognize a "heroic" Black World War II sailor for swimming through the night for hours to save 15 wounded sailors.