The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation's only fully restored combat ship ...

JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...

Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific. (U.S. Naval Reserve) On Sept. 15, 1944, the 31st U.S. Infantry Division landed on the ...

Binoculars, plates emblazoned with swastikas among finds. Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew ...

A rare World War II-era flying boat called the Philippine Mars made a pit stop in the Bay Area this past weekend. The boat landed in the Bay Area on Sunday from the British Columbia and anchored ...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in the South Pacific. American patrol boats sunk the ship Dec. 12, 1942, ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...