Nazi Germany’s Bismarck and Tirpitz, along with the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato and Musashi, are some of the most famous battleships to see service during the Second World War. There were other ...

The Second World War was fought on many fronts, with skirmishes occurring on land, in the air, and at sea alike. As a result, several forms of transportation and warfare became synonymous with the ...

Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War 2, the massive campaigns of the sky, and other valiant battle fronts. However, the ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

Naval War College Review, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Winter 2013), pp. 56-76 (21 pages) Trent Hone, “U.S. Navy Surface Battle Doctrine and Victory in the Pacific,” Naval War College Review 62, no. 1 (Winter 2009 ...

On this day 79 years ago, World War II came to an end when Japan officially surrendered. The battleship where Japan signed off on is docked in the waters of Pearl Harbor and a ceremony was held this ...

World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to 1945) saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans — ...

DECATUR - Walk down the stairs in the Adam Troxell Sr. home in Decatur and cast an eye upon a massive model ship. Extending over each end of a 7-foot pool table, the World War II battleship USS New ...

Robert Larson was an 18-year-old high school graduate with a horn when he joined the U.S. Navy on Nov. 22, 1942, to play in the band on ships. Larson was a Musician 2nd Class, assigned to the band on ...

ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from ...