Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...
Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...
The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...
Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...
When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...
The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...
(U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command ... The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which ...