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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The family of a World War Two veteran said the 80th anniversary of a decisive battle passed largely unnoticed by the British ...

The US operates 10 Nimitz-class flat top aircraft carriers, more than the rest of the world, but for the first time since the close of World War II, not a single carrier is deployed. The US had ...