The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships and earned 12 battle stars during World War II. Visitors can tour the vessel at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan. The ...

Iowa women's wrestling will compete in an event on the flight deck of the USS Yorktown, a US aircraft carrier.

Wreckage of what is likely 1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody,’ in the hangar deck of USS Yorktown. (Courtesy of NOAA Ocean ...

Commissioned in 1941, the USS Silversides sank 23 ships over its 14 war patrols, making it one of the most successful American submarines from World War II. The Gato-class submarine measures 312 ...

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships and earned 12 battle stars during World War II. Visitors can tour the vessel at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan. The submarine ...

The USS Yorktown earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation, was used during the Pacific Offensive in World War II, the Vietnam War and to recover the Apollo 8 astronauts and space ...

The sinking of the ex-USS Brattleboro was a quiet end for a ship that distinguished itself across decades. In World War II, it participated in the battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, two key US ...

Historians, however, call September 2, 1945, the day Japan signed surrender documents aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as V-J Day, and the official end of World War II.