The big Japanese suicide plane had slipped unseen through the confusion of the battle and was headed straight for the American aircraft carrier ... of sunken World War II warships.

When Lake Michigan was used practicing carrier takeoff and landing during WWII, naval air operations didn't always go quite ...

The age of the aircraft carrier began in World War II and has persisted through the ... (These are the 7 world powers with aircraft carriers.) The U.S. Navy’s air power, distributed across ...

A shipwreck discovered four years ago in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines has been identified as a U.S. aircraft carrier sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze plane in 1945, the Navy announced.

More images from an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II have been released ... on the hanger deck. One plane was still fully armed, with ...

More images from an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II have been released ... on the hanger deck. One plane was still fully armed, with ...

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier ... States into World War II. U.S. Navy ships ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace ... and declared Missing in Action. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...