While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...
World War II made one thing clear: control of the seas could decide the fate of nations. Although battleships had long defined naval dominance, the conflict proved that aircraft carriers and ...
Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...
In the Solomon Islands, a single stretch of water became the center of a brutal year-long campaign. This breaks down the key naval battles around Guadalcanal, and why so many ships went down here that ...
The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...
It took 77 years, but explorers finally identified the remains of a U.S. Navy destroyer that sunk during one of the most heroic actions of World War II. USS Johnston, October 1943. The fateful action ...