The Naval Aircraft Factory N3N was designed and built at roughly the same time as the Stearman PT-17, a more famous biplane ...

While the White House publicized the decision, the responsibility and authority to name ships lies squarely in the hands of ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

A Greek fisherman in Heraklion, Crete was faced with an unprecedented sight when he discovered parts of a WWII plane in his ...

The Navy vessels will be the first to bear the names of former presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B Roberts.

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F ... who had served as a naval officer during World War II. After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, he famously helped ...