Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

HA-19 midget submarine washed ashore on an eastern Oahu beach, after it went aground following attempts to enter Pearl Harbor during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack. (Naval History and Heritage ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

The sinking of the Japanese warship Shinano remains one of the most extraordinary naval events of World War II. It follows ...