USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. When it comes to legendary ...

The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The remains of a soldier from Massachusetts whose aircraft crashed in Europe during World War II in 1945 have been identified, and he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the Defense POW ...

Sergeant Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member ... The battalion helped protect the U.S. from deadly Japanese balloon bombs, according to Robert ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gives a eulogy during a memorial service hosted by Japanese bereaved families of the World War II on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto, or Iwo island, Japan, Saturday ...