Explore the captivating story of the Yamato battleships, Japan’s formidable naval superweapons during World War II. This video delves into the engineering marvel, strategic significance, and the ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

And now the wreckage of a Japanese World War II battleship has been found after decades underwater. Here's NPR's Sam Sanders. SAM SANDERS, BYLINE: It was October 24, 1944. Japanese and American troops ...

DECATUR - Walk down the stairs in the Adam Troxell Sr. home in Decatur and cast an eye upon a massive model ship. Extending over each end of a 7-foot pool table, the World War II battleship USS New ...

Eighteen is the legal age today, but during World War II, 21 was the legal age. At that time 18-year-olds didn't vote, but they served their country during the war with valor and accepted ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II's most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for "an ...

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.

On this day 79 years ago, World War II came to an end when Japan officially surrendered. The battleship where Japan signed off on is docked in the waters of Pearl Harbor and a ceremony was held this ...

Old Nazi warheads and US warships have been reclaimed by a new army of diverse marine life, as scientists uncover how nature has made use of the munitions and fleets that ended up dumped in waterways ...