During World War II, the United States displayed an impressive naval fleet, with numerous ships playing critical roles in the conflict. Among them, a select few distinguished themselves as the most ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The grounded Philippine warship Sierra Madre marks Manila's territorial claim near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the ...

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

The USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Commissioned in ...

The United States Navy commissioned its ... which is the third Navy ship named after the U.S. state, succeeding the BB-62 battleship that sailed in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam ...