The navy has been slow to adopt innovations because the U.S. Navy is the largest in the world and the American fleet is expensive to maintain and sustain. In the U.S. Navy, replacing older ships ...

Mr. Fay was known for his close friendship with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whom he met while in PT boat training during World War II. They were assigned to ... He was a trustee of the Naval ...

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

Then there is Radioman First class C.E. Nester, who at 22 years of age, saw 2 years of convoy duty in the North Atlantic and ...

Make the most of the three-day weekend with events ranging from a wine festival to observance on a Naval Weapons Station this ...

The Buckley-class destroyer escort USS England proved that size was no barrier to impact, emerging as one of the most effective anti-submarine vessels of World War II. Equipped with the formidable ...

The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

This MDW weekend, watch and stream the best Memorial Day movies, including military movies and war films to honor the ...

An online flyer promoting a trio of controversial speakers at an upcoming reunion of the survivors of the 1967 bombing of the USS Liberty is fake, organizers say — but one of the speakers named ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - After a long journey, the Philippine Mars—a flying boat from World War II—has finally arrived at the Pima Air and Space Museum. Within the museum are pieces history, a ...