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.

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.

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 ...

(CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history.

Researchers and scientists found a part of an 80-year-old damaged World War II warship more than 600 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean.

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 ...

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.