Four years before Pearl Harbor, Japan launched an unprovoked air assault on the American gunboat USS Panay in China. The attack was an early sign of imperial aggression in East Asia. Though Japan ...

The F/A-18 Super Hornet experienced an “arrestment failure” as it attempted to land on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

Jones was among 49 servicemen killed on the USS Eagle 56 after a German submarine lurking off the Maine coast, U-853, torpedoed the patrol boat. “It was the greatest loss of life in New England ...