BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of ...
Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...
While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the ...
At the Battle of the Coral Sea, American forces lost a fleet carrier and suffered heavy aircraft losses. Yet Japan lost ...
In the fall of 2022, the then-head of the French Navy, Adm. Pierre Vandier, declared that the French Navy (Marine Nationale) would celebrate just two specific historic events each year. One took place ...
The 175-meter-long New Orleans-class heavy cruiser Vincennes sank northeast of Savo Island on Aug. 9, 1942, during the Battle of Savo Island, the first naval battle of the Solomon Islands campaign. (X ...
Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History, a column where I go over the history that stands out from the textbook every week. This week, Feb. 9 to Feb. 15, is chock full of wars and tragedies as ...