The storied aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk -- a ship that served from Vietnam through the second Iraq war -- is heading for the scrapyard. The ship, which began its final sea voyage in January, will ...

In the final days of October 1944, the US and Japanese navies met in a decisive clash around the Philippines. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a crushing defeat for the Japanese navy, but it was also the ...

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Ancient peoples battled to master the sea. The earliest warships on record date back to Egyptian civilization. Ancient mariners took to the Nile River in boats constructed of lashed reeds and coated ...

For four days in late October 1944, the United States and Japan fought one of the largest battles in naval history. The United States brought over 300 ships to the invasion of the island of Leyte in ...

A towering figure in naval history was the focus of a recent talk. The Denbigh and District Probus Club gathered for their December meeting at Tweedmill, St Asaph, with club member Michael Corfe ...

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On the USS Barb's penultimate patrol during World War II, the Navy submarine executed a daring nighttime surface attack against 30 Japanese warships in shallow waters off the coast of China. The ...

The chair of the Naval Academy History Department resigned after reportedly being ordered by the academy’s superintendent to remove a previously approved paper from the list of those to be presented ...

A professor whose paper on homosexuality in naval adventure literature was accepted to a Naval Academy history symposium learned in June that his invitation had been rescinded — for reasons, he says, ...

In 1926, by an enactment of Congress, the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program was established and units set up at the University of California, Georgia School of Technology, Harvard ...