Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

and ushered in a new era of gigantic “supercarriers,” two or three times the size of most World War II fleet carriers. The largest of these eventually had nuclear-power plants of their own.

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Carrier Battles WW2: Admiral of the Fleet A real-time WW2 naval warfare simulation game on tactical level, Admiral of Fleet features 20 scenarios ...

Officially, the Royal Navy maintains this was to save ... by other surface warships did directly engage carriers one more time in World War II during the Battle of Samar, though this time the ...

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 Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named ... The aircraft carrier was the fourth to carry the Intrepid name through World War II in the Pacific and Vietnam until final decommissioning in ...

The US has not suffered an attack on its own soil since Japanese attack planes hit Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in 1941, and this is largely due to its powerful Navy and aircraft carrier strike groups.

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...