HMAS Sydney, Leander-class light cruiser Navy ship sunk World War II. second two historical /Australia ... the water and the Japanese were bombing us the whole time.” He remembered the ship ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...

Operation Ten Go, the final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to affect the outcome of the Pacific War, is well known for ...

The rain-soaked event featured many Navy officials, including Navy Secretary John Phelan ... “The Gray Ghost,” served in World War II, Korea and in the 1980s through 1990 patrolling the Persian Gulf.

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point ... right into the light cruiser Abukuma instead. Struck in the boiler room with 37 crewmen ...

After World War II, America's colossal aircraft carriers ... from a Washington-based think tank shows just how badly the US Navy is falling behind its competitor, China, with big implications ...

Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven U.S. Reaper drones in less than six weeks, a loss of aircraft worth more than $200 million in what is becoming the most dramatic cost to the Pentagon of the ...

And the Vinson, along with two destroyers and a cruiser, is in the Gulf of Aden.The third destroyer assigned to the Truman is in the Mediterranean Sea. And two other U.S. Navy destroyers are in ...

A crew researching an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that ... in 1937 and played a huge role in the United States' Pacific campaign during World War II before it sank in June 1942.

Of the six carriers, two battleships, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser ... Operations Editor for Sightline Media and a World War II researcher with an unparalleled affinity for Sir Winston ...

The Battle of Midway was a decisive win for the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II ... Navy, Marine, and Air Force aircraft were made at the ready, along with three fleet carriers, seven heavy ...