On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

announced the discovery of the wreck of the American battleship USS Nevada BB-36 almost 72 years after the warship was sunk as a target. However, no one should mistake such an inglorious end to ...

Explore key historical events from Sunday, Feb. 16, to Saturday, Feb.22, including King Tut's tomb unsealing, Fidel Castro's ...

The Nevada-class battleships’ primary weaponry ... Throughout the war, the USS Bogue sank 10 German submarines and two Japanese submarines while reportedly damaging at least seven more submarines.

William Henry Pratt was 19 and served on the USS Nevada during the 1941 attack. His brother Basil Pratt was also on the ship ...

He was a 19-year-old sailor on the USS Nevada when the ship was attacked Dec. 7, 1941. He was alone and in the dark in the ship’s shaft alley as the battleship was bombed and torpedoed.

New images reveal the extent of the damage the USS Harry S. Truman suffered this week when it collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The photos released Saturday by ...

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier was involved in a collision Wednesday with a merchant vessel near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy announced. "The Nimitz-class ...

Conducted on July 31 to September 3, the USS Tang’s fourth war patrol began in the coastal waters off Honshu. It took only 11 days of patrolling the area before the Tang located and sank the ...