What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

Submarines are fraught with danger, especially in times of war. Often tasked with operating solo or in pairs, submarines end ...

In the next few days, the SS United States will be towed out of the Delaware River for the final time. Here are the details. Often called "America's flagship," the SS United States is a marvel of ...

What You Need to Know: In 2005, the U.S. Navy sunk the decommissioned USS America in a classified SINKEX exercise to gather data on the resilience of supercarriers. The 30-day scuttling process ...

The historic SS United States is set to be turned into an artificial reef, but people who sailed on the majestic ship remember her heyday.

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is embarked aboard the America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), “campaigning and competing in ...

The amphibious assault ship, USS America, is equipped with a flight deck that supports U.S. Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter jets. The warship has been stationed in Sasebo on the Japanese main ...

The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 For the first time in 107 years, something from the USS ...

The USS Cobia sank 16,835 tons of shipping during the war, including a Japanese ship loaded with 28 tanks in a move credited with helping the US win the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. The submarine ...

Shortly after midnight on July 23, 1945, the USS Barb surfaced 950 yards off the shore of Sakhalin, and the eight men, among them Saunders and Hatfield, set out. They had about three hours ...

(CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory ... Pointedly, he reminded Japanese officials of how the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 had sparked ...