On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

Mount Suribachiyama, an approximately 170-meter peak where Japanese forces dug in during the World War II fighting ... Some U.S. troops also conduct field carrier landing practice there, according ...

My ear is tuned to the memory of aircraft launching from my carrier off Okinawa at the end of World War II, and the howling ... Their target: a huge Japanese invasion fleet several hundred miles ...

Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) with its air wing consisting of F-35C Lightning IIs works alongside the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

The Battle of the Philippine Sea, fought on June 19-20, 1944, was the largest aircraft carrier battle in history and a pivotal clash during the Pacific War. Sparked by the US invasion of the Mariana ...

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From B-2 stealth bombers to fully capable aircraft carriers, the kind of military coordination that the US has prepared clearly shows it’s no longer in the mood to just threaten. The US has ...

The very versatile J2F Duck was used first and foremost as an air-sea rescue aircraft. In the world of Mother Nature, the ...

ABOARD THE CHARLES DE GAULLE, Philippines--France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying ... with Japan was expected to be ratified by Japanese legislators this year, while talks ...