HMS Hood, the largest warship in the world for 20 years, was dispatched to ambush the colossal German battleship Bismarck in ...

The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest ever built, carried the 18.1-inch Type 94 naval gun, the biggest gun in world ...

Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

THE first treasures from the legendary San José galleon have finally been brought to surface, ten years after the “Holy Grail ...

It’s more than just a football game. Anyone who has ever witnessed an Army-Navy game knows this in their bones. It’s a spectacle like no other, where the final score is almost secondary to the raw ...

TOKYO (AP) — The top U.S. admiral on Monday called China ‘s shipbuilding capability “impressive” as Beijing moves ahead with a rapid buildup of the world’s largest navy, and said America’s cooperation ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...

In a briefing, presumably somewhere at sea aboard USS Essex, young John Chambers, foreground, center, listens intently to a briefing, either before or after a mission. Names of others in the photo are ...