On March 6, 1953, with the Korean War in full swing, the Essex-class USS Oriskany carrier's worst enemy was one of her own ...

Northstar Maritime Dismantlement Services won a contract from the Department of Defense to dismantle and recycle a historical nuclear-powered carrier.

With the pace of warfare quickening and new threats emerging without warning, the ability to rapidly design, test, and deploy ...

The ship's namesake, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Quentin Walsh, helped plan the capture of Cherbourg in the days leading up to ...

A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the ...

While each community may celebrate Memorial Day differently, the reason and sentiment is the same: to honor and remember the ...

City officials dedicated Monday a city square in honor of a Salem native and U.S. Navy seaman who died while serving during ...

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

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

A small plane crashed in dense fog in a Murphy Canyon neighborhood early Thursday morning, killing at least two people on the plane, injuring eight people on the ground and burning several cars and ...

SAN DIEGO — Chris Frey hustled back to Michigan State’s bus as the sun began to sink toward the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday afternoon, he and his teammates running late for their final full ...

Players and coaches began the day as a team by shaking hands with military personnel and signing autographs. Their tour opened inside a massive hangar on the USS Essex, a Wasp-class amphibious ...