Explore the dramatic events of the Battle of Midway, a pivotal turning point in WWII in the Pacific! Dive into the strategic maneuvers and heroic stories that led to a significant shift in naval power ...

This historic World War II footage shows U.S. Navy aircraft returning from combat and landing on carrier decks at sea. You ...

A 106-year-old WWII veteran reveals how his US Navy ship survived a Japanese kamikaze attack in the Pacific theater.

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in June 2025 identified the remains of Lt. J.G. Ralph Cornelius Dupont, missing from World ...

During World War II, military officials reported naval aviators flew from aircraft carriers, projecting air power across vast stretches of the Pacific Ocean, and participated in major battles such as ...

Lt. Ralph DuPont, a World War II F6F-5 Hellcat Pilot, went missing during the Battle of Formosa in 1944. It took 80 years to ...

Chester Nimitz, born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, rose to become a key figure in the U.S. Navy during World War II. As Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz led crucial victories at ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined modern diving equipment with military objectives.

Joseph Williams, an African American World War II veteran from Tallahassee, Florida, has recently turned 106 years old. His ...

For the average American, the Army-Navy football game is normally a curiosity at best and an afterthought at worst. On Dec. 2, 1944, however, the Black Knights and Midshipmen clashed in a matchup that ...

The Navy has spent $129.8 million on the cleanup of the former World War II blimp hangar at the shuttered Marine Corps Air ...