The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 feet into one of the world’s deepest submarine chasms. The U.S.S. Johnston ...

The U.S. Navy’s Lexington-class battlecruisers were authorized in 1916 as America’s answer to the global naval arms race.

With The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945, N.A.M. Rodger concludes a trilogy of works on the topic in triumph. When the process of relocating World War II naval training ...

A 250kg World War II bomb discovered in Rauma’s port triggered a Finnish Navy operation and renewed focus on Baltic Sea ...

WAVES Aviation Machinist’s Mates (AMM) working on a SNJ training plane and its Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, circa 24 July 1943. They are (from left ...

A photograph from a series of images showing the tattoos of C. A. Lushbaugh, who served in the Navy in the 1920s. (USS Arizona Memorial Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command) During his third ...