Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...

At a critical moment during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the order was given for the blacked-out US aircraft carriers to turn on their lights to assist American pilots returning to ...

Servicemembers assigned to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) made a brief mission stop, March 20, near Ulithi Atoll, part of the Caroline Islands in the Federated States of ...

Gauging an untested opponent: U.S. perceptions of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1918-1941 -- Dismantling the "lesser foe" and the "superior enemy" images, December 1941 to early 1943 -- The elusive ...

The potency of the US Navy’s air power increased at a bewildering rate during the second world war. From hair-raising early ...

Summary and Key Points: “The Great War of Archimedes” presents a fictionalized account of the political maneuvers behind the construction of the Japanese battleship Yamato, a symbol of Japan’s naval ...

Summary: Speculative discussions on using atomic bombs against the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) suggest that, under ideal conditions, such an attack could have significantly damaged the IJN’s ...

Located on the Pacific coast of Aomori Prefecture, the small city of Misawa has long been defined by its aviation heritage. In 1931, it was the takeoff point for the first successful nonstop ...