During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the U.S. Navy deployed two Iowa-class battleships, the USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS ...

By the end of World War II, advancements in military technology rendered traditional battleship guns less decisive. In ...

Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

The USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) was commissioned on Saturday, with one of the two ship sponsors being Richard’s ...

Before the rise of aircraft carriers, battleships were every navy’s most powerful asset. Over the years, scores of these ...

The USS New Jersey is the first U.S. Navy submarine designed to accommodate both male and female sailors since the ban on ...

On Sept. 11, Keil will finally return home. With family present, he will be buried in the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

A ship that served in World War II during the D-Day operation is coming to Marietta Thursday. LST Ship Memorial Inc. is ...

At age 100, Joe Gompers feels that his time serving in World War II was “the greatest experience of my life.” “You can’t ...

The growing number of toxic exposure cases among veterans today reflects the many health risks they faced during service.

A team of U.S. military personnel, in collaboration with several foreign and national entities, has been in Faro since ...