The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the ...

A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Captain Gail Harris says her dream of joining the Navy started when she was a little girl. "Well when I was five years old I ...

No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers.

“ By the afternoon, only one Japanese carrier remained: Hiryū. It’s believed Best’s bomb was one of four to strike the vessel, making him the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese aircraft ...

Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months for four years); now it takes the United States a decade to commission a ...

You’ve heard of the word Zeppelin and first thing that pops to your mind are large airships, most notably the famous ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

At the end of 2024 came the christening of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine, at Newport News Shipbuilding ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...