The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...

Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at 6 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach ...

Escort carriers, also known as “Jeep Carriers,” were smaller, lightly armored WWII aircraft carriers built quickly to support ...

County firefighters gave the long-retired chief a ride around the Brookdale parking lot in an in-service engine. He seemed to enjoy the ride.

Located in the heart of LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations, including aspects that other persecuted and marginalized ...

Rescue crews in Myanmar pulled a 26-year-old man out alive from the rubble of a capital city hotel after nearly 108 hours, ...

This month, the Russian Navy’s Kilo-II submarine demonstrated its ability to launch one of the Kremlin’s most advanced cruise ...

The warship was finally launched on April 25, 1989. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, the battlecruiser ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

When a Wisconsin shipyard won the contract to build a new class of Navy frigate in 2020, the project was meant to address an embarrassing reality: The U.S. is now the global laggard in building ...

On April 7, 1945, the legendary Yamato – the largest ship in naval history – was attacked by waves of American carrier-borne aircraft while en route to Okinawa to play her part in the Imperial ...

A similar pattern of strengths and weaknesses defined the United States and imperial Japan in World War II’s Pacific theater. At the outset of that conflict, it was the U.S. Navy that was less skilled ...