On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service, but the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the Navy paid more attention to European trends in shipbuilding, it might have gone ahead with the Lexington-class battlecruisers, which would have offered U.S.

The U.S. warship was sunk by a Japanese submarine in July 1945. It delivered parts for the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY -- From America’s entry into World War II in December of 1941 to the end of the conflict early in September, 1945, the United States Navy surged from under 340,000 officers and ...

Birmingham’s most serious incident occurred in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest Naval battle of World War II. Nearly half of Birmingham’s crew became casualties. Fayette County was home to one of ...

The US Navy (USN) has agreed to change its ship-modernisation plan developed for guided-missile cruisers (CGs) following a critique and recommendation by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...