The Battle of the Java Sea was one of the most pivotal naval clashes of World War II in the Pacific, marking a devastating ...

The Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū was one of the final ships commissioned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. As the lead ship of her class, Unryū was expected to play a ...

MHI launched Tatsuta, the 11th Mogami-class frigate on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), in a ceremony ...

FUKUOKA, Japan - “Eighty years ago today, (my father, Lt. Kentaro Toji) was one of the executioners in an incident involving ...

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

Cmdr. Lawson P. “Red” Ramage led his submarine, Parche, to hell and back.

Speaking with Fox17 about his time in the military and fighting one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Graves admitted, “We formed the best crack division the Marine Corps had. We lost ...

An exhibition exposing atrocities committed by the Japanese military during its invasion of China in World War II was held from Friday to Tuesday in Yokohama, Japan, China National Radio reported ...

The Yorktown, an 809-foot-long United States Navy aircraft carrier, has been resting on the ocean floor since June 1942, when Japanese forces torpedoed the vessel during the Battle of Midway.

Two Japanese naval ships docked Saturday at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, whose recently completed Chinese-funded upgrade has heightened U.S. concerns that it will be used as a strategic outpost ...

Chester Nimitz, born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, rose to become a key figure in the U.S. Navy during World War II. As Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz led crucial victories ...

By AUDREY McAVOY and MARI YAMAGUCHI PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Batt… ...