That’s why a special remembrance was held today on the USS Battleship North Carolina. The ceremony has been held there since 1962 when the battleship became the state’s World War II Memorial as the ...

ABOARD THE USS MOUNT WHITNEY — The Navy wants to mothball the only ship in the fleet that allows a U.S. commander to simultaneously lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe and Africa, a move critics ...

An MH-60S Knighthawk assigned to the ‘Blackjacks’ of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 departs from Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) in the Strait of ...

Key Points - The USS Texas (BB-35), a New York-class battleship serving in both World War I and World War II, was once dubbed the "most powerful weapon in the world." -It played a crucial role in ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe USS Hornet leaving Hampton Roads in October 1941. The search for the wreckage of the USS Hornet, an American aircraft carrier used during the Tokyo air raid in World War II, has ...

Surprisingly, the first U.S. aircraft carrier, Langley, to visit our island was before World War II on Sept. 18, 1939 for just a few hours. However, Langley by then had been converted into a ...

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war with Spain. The USS Maine was in Cuba ...

The USS Intrepid is today a museum ship docked on the Hudson River in New York. But before it became a tourist attraction, the aircraft carrier known as “The Fighting I” was a hard-working member of ...

Yes, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), commonly referred to as "Ike," was constructed with multiple asbestos-containing materials. Congress authorized the ship's construction in 1970, during a ...

Angola has made significant progress in clearing land mines and other unexploded ordnance left over from the country’s 27-year civil war. These efforts have ...