USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

The Patriots catch wind of a secret British plan to move troops from Boston into Concord and they dispatch William Dawes and Paul Revere to warn other Patriots that the British are coming. The British ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

The eight-foot-long underwater robot called Remus 300 dropped into the Atlantic Ocean 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, North ...

As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, we are reminded by the American Revolution that the nation's independence was won not only by battlefield bravery but also by extraordinary feats of ...

The incident, in a laundry room on the USS Gerald R. Ford, is another setback during the ship’s extended deployment.

Senior day for Jaxon Kohler will be a lifetime memory for his family. Kohler’s 102-year-old great-grandfather was the honored veteran on Thursday.

France suspects Russian ‘provocation’ amid worries Moscow will interfere in European elections as part of broader strategy against Ukraine. What we know on day 1,466 The Swedish military confirmed on ...

Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...

During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, USS Lexington absorbed devastating bomb and torpedo hits from Japanese aircraft. Though damage control teams initially stabilized the carrier, internal ...