Summary and the Key Points You Need to Know About the Top Battleships Ever: Before aircraft carriers dominated naval warfare, ...

The first US aircraft carrier launched in 1922 - USS Langley. Those pioneers likely could never have imagined the leviathans ...

The Midway-class aircraft carriers, named after the iconic Battle of Midway, consisted of three ships—USS Midway, USS Coral ...

Part of the reason for the navy going big during the Cold War was acquisition strategy. It was considered easier to focus on ...

The Glorious was sunk, along with both destroyers, with only 39 survivors out of nearly 1,600 crew members. The event remains ...

In the crucible of battle, pilots of the US Army Air Corps, US Navy and Marines would perform heroic feats to see through the ...

Many innovative aircraft carriers have paved the way for today's ships, building upon designs from World War II and even World War I. Some WWII aircraft carriers were converted from preexisting ...

An aircraft carrier is one of the most intimidating ships you'll see on the water, but that doesn't mean it's immune from ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

But the trainer carriers had a problem with what is called "wind over the deck." When there was little or no wind on Lake Michigan, training had to stop because the carriers couldn't generate ...

The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World ... because she was one of the capital ships that was lost during WWII," Vulcan spokesman Robert Kraft said. Pictures from the seabed ...

Lorin Heward, 98, of Idaho Falls, poses for a photo in his backyard. He served as a gunner on the U.S.S. Enterprise during ...