USS Franklin (CV-13) would become one of the most decorated Essex-class aircraft carriers to act as a cornerstone in the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

That vessel, designated CV-6, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier that served with distinction throughout World War II, and her record speaks for itself. The USS Enterprise was the most ...

The Super Constellation was one of the world's first pressurized airliners and the first Air Force One aircraft.

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 ...

A captured Japanese fighter pilot was "convinced Japan had lost the war" after he saw the ships of the Navy's Task Force 58 ...

Before the rise of aircraft carriers, battleships were every navy ... New Jersey shelled targets on Okinawa and Guam during World War II, participated in raids during the Korean War, and was ...