In August 1945, just as World War II came to an end, the U.S. Navy encountered something deeply unsettling in the Pacific. A ...

Aircraft carriers are supposed to project power and resilience, yet naval history is littered with ships that instead ...

Japan is converting two naval vessels into aircraft carriers to bolster its defense posture in its southwestern islands.

Submarines mauled shipping and threatened the survival of many nations in the second world war. One way to fight back was with anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Attacking a submarine from the air was a ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force wave to USS George Washington (CVN-73) as the aircraft carrier departed a bilateral training for South Korea. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force photo ...