The Douglas Skyraider was designed at the end of WWII as a single-seat carrier strike aircraft built around long range and heavy payload rather than speed. It proved its value in Korea by carrying ...

On her long trip to the scrapyard, the venerable aircraft carrier will sail around South America and participate in naval exercises.

The USS Nimitz is retiring this year, at the venerable age of 51. Here are 10 memorable pieces of history from her past five ...

During the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was stationed as a radar picket directly in the path of incoming Japanese aircraft. That morning, a massive wave of kamikaze pilots ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived by helicopter on the nuclear-armed aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to announce that France would lead a European naval group in the Middle East.

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build ...

While seeking a World War II airship of the Florida coast, the diving crew found a large shuttle segment with tiles from the ...

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.

After the ordnance was discovered, 18,000 people evacuated from the city. Experts worked for several hours to safely dispose ...