Vice Admiral William Halsey Jr. launched the largest carrier-based attack in U.S. Navy history to shift momentum in the ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

“They were all in peace at home having wonderful celebrations; we were going to be kept at war with the Japanese ... Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland – the head of the Royal Navy ...

The museum's artifacts include atomic bomb casings and part of the submersible that discovered the wreck of the Titanic.

In the modern era ... Cities in World War II.” The seminar “looks at the atomic bombs but also the firebombing of Japan and Germany — examining the way that nations tried to win wars not just by ...

A former US World War ... Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC). Over the course of a month, it helped get more than 400 wounded soldiers from shore to larger hospital ships and shot down a ...

As a young Marine corporal in the Pacific Theater in World War II ... with revelers waving American flags and soldiers smooching women. The surrender of the Japanese — days after the U.S ...

The little known chapter in the aircraft carrier’s history is the subject of a new book, “The Sailing of the Intrepid.” ...

The National Museum of the US Navy is located in the Washington Navy Yard, an active military base. Access is limited and security measures are tight, but it contains fascinating artifacts.

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...