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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Future President George H.W. Bush was shot down during World War II on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1944, while serving as a ...