This post was updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. A pair of U.S. naval vessels carried out Washington’s first ...

American tank destroyers were created to counter massed German armor—not to replace tanks. This video reexamines how that ...

Japanese soldiers were beating a POW to the brink of death... that is until Richard Antrim stepped forward and offered to ...

During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

The Bella 1 had been tailed by a US Coast Guard cutter across the Atlantic Ocean for almost two weeks when the ship’s crew ...

After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a break before the next crisis in ...

USS Bulkeley and USS Paul Ignatius "supported" the operations to seize the vessel, a defense official told Business Insider.

Arrival of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford in the Caribbean reimagines the “America for the Americans” of the Monroe Doctrine two centuries later. History of pressures ranged from gunboat diplomacy ...

It was the largest naval operation in history, an extraordinary assemblage of more than 1,000 combat ships and 124,000 U.S. sailors and Coast Guardsmen determined to wrest France back from the Nazis.

World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and ...

In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...