Prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy embraced the Kantai Kessen strategy, envisioning a single decisive naval battle that would determine the war’s outcome. Drawing inspiration from ...

A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk in 1945 by a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II has been discovered by a group of civilian underwater explorers deep in the Pacific Ocean ...

Bud Anderson, the last World War II ‘triple ace,’ dies at 102 Bud Anderson, the last World War II ‘triple ace,’ dies at 102 By Nicholas Slayton SEE MORE ...

Navy divers comb a Pacific graveyard, seeking lost World War II airmen An elite team dived 200 feet underwater in search of the crew of ‘Heaven Can Wait,’ a bomber shot down off New Guinea in 1944 ...

A group of underwater explorers discovered a long-lost sunken World War II Navy warship. The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele sank off Okinawa in 1945 after being hit by two kamikaze attacks. Insider ...

A Chinese junk and an World War I-era U.S. Navy armored cruiser in Chinese waters. (Naval History and Heritage Command) Swentzel and Pittman spotted another junk in the distance on the morning of ...

During World War II, the U.S. Navy veteran served aboard several PBYs as a flight engineer and crew chief in the Pacific theater. “It was slow and noisy and looked like a whale, but it was very ...

TEXARKANA, Texas -- World War II veterans are leaving us quickly. Of the 16 million who fought in World War II, there are about 160,000 still alive today. James Upchurch, 97, is a Navy veteran who ...

U.S. Navy sailors man the rails as the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on March 23, 2012, for a deployment to the Western Pacific.

The war was over. Japan had surrendered on August 15. There was no need for any more violence in the Pacific Ocean. But on August 21, a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was ...

The USS Albacore (SS-218) was only in service for just over two years when the vessel disappeared off one of Japan’s northernmost islands.