In this video, we tell the remarkable story of the USS Hornet, one of WWII’s most decorated aircraft carriers ... the legacy of these extraordinary ships that played an essential role in ...

can give visitors a more intuitive view on how ships work. A model of the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey was made by Raymond F. Guyette of Hayesville, N.C., to honor naval veterans like his ...

His collection has grown to more than 1,200 models. Raised in a Chicago suburb, Simanton said he was always interested in ships, models and World War II ... of the earliest aircraft carriers.

It's hard to imagine now in our globalized world, but many of the young American soldiers who headed onto massive ships like the USS Intrepid during World War II had never even seen the ocean before.

ship Izumo off the southeast coast of Japan—the first landing on a Japanese carrier by a U.S. fixed-wing aircraft since World War II. The flights tested modifications to the ship, which ...