Only the largest U.S. Navy ships – battleships, heavy cruisers, anti-aircraft cruisers, and aircraft carriers – that were sunk in WWII are included, ordered by when they were sunk.

World War II marked a turning point in naval warfare and saw the development of some of the ... The Northampton-class heavy cruisers were equipped with nine 8-inch/.55 caliber rapid-fire naval ...

Summary and Key Points: The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, although less famous than Iowa-class battleships, played a key role in World War II by protecting U.S. Navy carrier groups and ...

One of the first two “heavy” cruisers built by the U.S. — The other was the USS Pensacola — starting in the late 1920s, it helped to make up the “new” surface striking force of the ...

In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was sunk by two torpedoes in the Philippine Sea ...