The massive vessels were decommissioned in favor of smaller, more versatile ships. And experts are skeptical of the plan to ...

His wife had been a real-life Rosie the Riveter. He inspected the ships' welding. How I spent an afternoon with Arthur ...

In early 1942, the United States launched a secret naval experiment to stop German submarines. At the center of that gamble ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

Jeffboat built a reputation as one of the country's largest inland shipyards, and while the company is known for the massive towboats launched into the Ohio River, large World War II-era vessels also ...

SCHOOLS AND GARDENS. INTERESTING. WELL, A PIECE OF WORLD WAR TWO HISTORY IS NOW DOCKED AND READY FOR ALL TO SEE IN EASTERN IOWA. YEAH, THIS IS INTERESTING. TOURS OF A WORLD WAR TWO ERA LANDING SHIP.

Old Nazi warheads and US warships have been reclaimed by a new army of diverse marine life, as scientists uncover how nature has made use of the munitions and fleets that ended up dumped in waterways ...

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A fire engulfed a warehouse on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf early Saturday, sending a thick plume of smoke over the waterfront and threatening to spread to a historic World War ...