USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

The waters around Guadalcanal hide one of the largest concentrations of World War II shipwrecks on Earth. This explains how a series of brutal naval battles in 1942 and 1943 turned a quiet Pacific ...

Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese ...

When people remember the 1971 India-Pakistan war, they usually think of the lightning ground campaign that led to the fall of ...

Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Philip LaBatte of Loudonville, a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Battle of Khe Sanh during the ...

Had that been all, it would have been nothing worse than an obscure mediocrity, but Blackburn had also made it extremely ...

History has its share of forgotten aircraft carriers. These long-forgotten ships were often testbeds for new technologies and strategies.

The battle was one of the reasons why 1759 – which brought a series of triumphs – was known as the Navy’s “Annus Mirabilis”.

Do the United States and Israel share similar goals? What kind of leadership will Iran have next? How does The Times report ...

A two-day symposium will explore more than just the "blood and guts" of Patton, but an in-depth exploration of one of the war ...

Tributes have been paid to World War 2 or WW2 warriors Richard Aldred and John King after their deaths at 101. Richard landed on Omaha Beach in a Cromwell Tank on D-Day in 1944, serving with the Royal ...

The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar ice cap for the 100th time since World War II.