Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

Not all ships sink to the bottom of the sea due to enemy fire, as some are scuttled instead. It was common during WWII, but ...

World War II veterans and others gathered on board the Battleship Iowa in San Pedro on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, to mark Pearl ...

Millions of women joined the workforce to help out with the war effort. In the process, they changed women’s roles in society ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

Vast networks of undersea cables critical to daily life in NATO countries are very vulnerable to attacks, including sabotage.

In 1944, two years after the attack, the USS California returned to her combat fleet. The Department of War said the ...

Rust does not actually affect the fighting prowess of America’s ships—but it suggests a navy in decline, an image that China has promoted as it builds up its own fleet.

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Navy nurse Alice Darrow came to Pearl Harbor as a VIP guest for the anniversary commemorations of Imperial Japan’s Dec. 7, ...

To defend Santa Cruz County’s shoreline, the Coast Artillery were trained at Camp McQuaide, first located at Delaware Avenue ...