Finding aircraft actively involved in the pivotal battle of World War II in the Pacific was the most important discovery in ...

The aircraft carrier, now just over one hundred years old, is one of the most resilient weapons of the modern era. More than ...

Discoveries made on expedition of sunken Yorktown CV-5 are chance for new stories to be told aboard Yorktown CV-10 museum ...

Witness the heroic resistance of Allied forces against Hitler's invasion, shattering the myth of German invincibility.

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

The new SAM device allows a single person to control all aspects of the pumping operation that directs water onto the fire.

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent cameras inside the wreck over the Easter holiday weekend and three planes were located in the ...

Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical evidence of these ...