On this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway — regarded as one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan — came to an end. The Battle of Midway was an Allied naval ...

Woody Harrelson as Admiral Nimitz in 'Midway' Staff Writer Warning: Contains spoilers for the movie Midway Just in time for Americans to officially remember veterans of World War II and other ...

Following the devastating U.S. losses at Pearl Harbor and the fall of Wake Island, Japan sought to eliminate American carrier forces and establish dominance in the central Pacific. What followed was a ...

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, ...

Researchers for the first time have performed a detailed search of three deep-sea shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway, discovering new details that could help researchers better understand a critical ...

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Following the sinking of hms Hood in May 1941, the Royal Navy launched one of the largest naval hunts in history. The German battleship Bismarck, damaged but still operational, attempted to break free ...