"That was the only time in my life he ever gave any real details, and I was in my 40s and had already done eight years of ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

The US Navy has been pivoting from a Cold War alignment toward a more modern, flexible fleet as the focus shifts to the ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) built for the US Navy in the 80s. Footage Credit: US Navy , Derivative Work by The Daily ...

On a recent morning, the R/V Echo, a 26-foot landing craft custom-built for the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University ...

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

But long before America entered the World War II, a “Superman” comic strip titled “ How Would Superman End The War? ” showed Superman single-handedly beating the Nazis, Soviets, and Japanese and ...

Third Class Petty Officer Ronald P. Yuhas was aboard a Navy landing craft laden with tons of ammunition when it was struck by a North Vietnamese rocket in Da Nang harbor on Feb. 25, 1969. One of mo… ...

Everett Spackman of Laramie, Wyoming, has seen a lot over his 100 years of life. He served in two wars, and remembers the ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...