The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service, but the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the Navy paid more attention to European trends in shipbuilding, it might have gone ahead with the Lexington-class battlecruisers, which would have offered U.S.

Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, the ship’s wreckage was discovered 5,500 meters below the surface resting on ...