Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

The StuG III, or Sturmgeschütz III, was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle in WWII. It could penetrate the front armor of tanks like the KV-1. The powerful tank destroyer and its ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.

Though these ships are called “destroyers,” they ... they are thin skinned and shockingly have less than half the range of World War II–era cruisers of similar displacement.

An expedition group composed of government and private organizations discovered the long-lost WWII destroyer on Aug. 1 with the aid of underwater drones operated by Ocean Infinity. “The USS ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

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The Navy is about to name a ship in honor of Omaha’s World War II “Hero of the Solomons ... that one of the next new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 142) will be named for Petty ...