In this week's Texas Minute history column, Ken Bridges looks at the life and legacy of Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.

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

Like a millennial "Saving Private Ryan," the brutally visceral drama "Warfare" immerses its young actors in a harrowing true-life moment.

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists ...

This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching ... Iran might have "no choice" but to pursue nuclear weapons if attacked. Economic sanctions have remained ...

Myanmar’s ruling military has declared a temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war to facilitate relief efforts ...

The U.S. Navy’s battleships have long been symbols of naval power and versatility, each with a unique and storied history. -The USS Washington made history by sinking the Japanese battleship Kirishima ...

As he approached the crest of Hill 424, he ran into a wall of machine gun and small arms fire ... soldier and spent almost the rest of World War II in a Nazi prisoner of war camp.

Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant ... which has the largest navy in the world by hull ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Valuable guns, an antique cartridge case, and a rare World War II military knife are set to go under the hammer at Mitchells. The auction ...