As Ward closed within 500 yards, she commenced firing with her 4-inch main guns and scored a direct hit on the midget sub, ...

The U.S. sent one of its 11 aircraft carriers to the Philippine Sea, while another was at Yokosuka naval base in Japan.

SECNAV Del Toro Announces the Sponsors of the Future USS Charles J. French will be the Director of OMB and Ms. Vanessa French ...

The P-39 was much better suited for the medium and lower altitudes where most Eastern European air combat took place. Soviet ...

Three noncommissioned officers were officially inducted into a prestigious association named after one of America’s greatest ...

As the year that marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day draws to an end, Chronicle reporter Tim Butters revisits an interview he ...

In honor of Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7, town resident Robert Ducharme said he is proud to be a third-generation veteran, with ...

Less than a dozen cadets and midshipmen who faced off in the annual rivalry game later earned the Medal of Honor for combat ...

In April 2003, the USS Mason (DDG-87), an Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the US Navy.

A compromise hammered out over the weekend by House and Senate leaders is expected to result in quick approval for the $883.7 billion annual defense policy bill, formally titled this year as the ...

Gerald “Gerry” Schumacher can still remember when he heard the news over the radio that would turn Dec. 7, 1941, into an infamous date in U.S. history.

Looking to shipyards in Japan and Korea to repair Navy ships and possibly build ships for U.S. use as the recent icebreaker ...