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

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that paid the ultimate price.

With World War Two over, the legendary USS Missouri was supposed to be decommissioned and abandoned forever after hosting Japan's surrender. Yet, decades later, the massive battleship was resurrected ...

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 ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...

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 ...

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, ...

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a ...