The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to ...

For a land-locked state, Wyoming has its share of naval history, including two battleships that served in the Civil War, ...

A look at the sheer scale, history, and evolution of 10 of the biggest military submarines ever made, from early experiments ...

USS Iowa (SSN-797), the 24th submarine of the Virginia-class, was commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, ...

Ensign Jack Carl Fuller received the Navy Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, two Bronze Stars and World War II Victory Medal.

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...

Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for their daring and ingenuity, their deadly 24-inch Type 93 “Long Lance” ...

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said that Ukraine itself received the coordinates of the cruiser Moskva and the Navy struck it with its own forces, without the help of the US. Pletenchuk said this on ...