During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful but fast destroyers.

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in the South Pacific. A research team aboard the Ocean Exploration Trust ...

Prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy embraced the Kantai Kessen strategy, which envisioned victory through a single, decisive naval battle dominated by superior firepower. Inspired by ...

The B-24 derivative was known as the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer. It served as a long-range patrol and submarine and ship hunter in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean theaters of war.

A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go ...

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found A crew researching an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II made a remarkable discovery over the weekend.

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most ...