Once the mighty and highly visible “big hammer” of the US Navy, the big battleships that were brought out of mothballs and ...

The ship came under attack from the Allied forces, which crippled its rudder. The Imperial Japanese Navy then scuttled the Hiei and it was left to sink. The leisure boat operator repaired the ...

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 ...

Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot ... to the National WWII Museum, suicide plane attacks began at Okinawa on March 26, 1945, and five days after the initial ...

A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship ... and firepower, the Japanese destroyed the ship in 1941. The Missouri served in ...

Two Japanese naval ships docked Saturday at Cambodia’s Ream ... that it will be used as a strategic outpost for China’s navy in the Gulf of Thailand. The visit by the two minesweepers, the ...