In late 1944, during the intense Battle of Leyte Gulf - the largest naval conflict of World War II - the USS Princeton was ...

Escort carriers, also known as “Jeep Carriers,” were smaller, lightly armored WWII aircraft carriers built quickly to support ...

Japan's F-35Bs will be embarked aboard two Izumo-class helicopter-carrying destroyers, which are currently being modified into the first Japanese aircraft carriers since World War II. Komatsu Air ...

On 3-4 June 1942, planes from two Japanese aircraft carriers attacked Dutch Harbor ... If you liked this story, sign up for The Essential List newsletter – a handpicked selection of features ...

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 ...

since the end of World War II. If the Ming ... but we were going to produce the Japanese into the ground regardless (we built 17 major aircraft carriers after the battle, while the Japanese ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

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.