Utter darkness and a restless sea set the stage for what many historians consider the fiercest and most desperate naval ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...

By the war’s end, 28 submarines had been built in Manitowoc, each destined for dangerous missions thousands of miles away.

A new ocean expedition in the South Pacific has revealed striking new images of more than a dozen ships sunk during key World War II battles. Researchers on the Ocean Exploration Trust vessel ...

Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, the day when President Harry Truman announced Japan's intention to surrender.

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy in enemy waters.

A US marine research team has finally found Teruzuki’s wreck in a sea area known as the Iron Bottom Sound, which was the stage of five major naval battles between August and December 1942 that ...

A real-time WW2 naval warfare simulation game on tactical level, Admiral of Fleet features 20 scenarios covering the naval battles between carriers in the early stage of the war, from December ...

New ocean expedition captures images of 13 WWII shipwrecks from major naval battles Five major battles at Iron Bottom Sound killed over 20,000 people and sunk 111 ships in 1942 Vishwam Sankaran ...