The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest and most decisive naval battle ever fought, involving hundreds of ships and aircraft across multiple theaters of combat. In October 1944, the Imperial Japanese ...

The Battle of the Java Sea was one of the most pivotal naval clashes of World War II in the Pacific, marking a devastating ...

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle’s advice on reforming US Navy doctrine is at once prescient and rooted in age-old ...

The Houthis spent more than a year attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. American and European forces have deployed to the region to defend against the attacks. European naval ...

Note” – to the fleet from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle. The “Way We Fight” C-Note is the fourth in a series of ...

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into a burning wreck during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Already wounded from ...

FAIRHAVEN — The Fairhaven Village Militia will start off its “Evening at the Fort” series with a bang – literally – when members commemorate the 250th anniversary of the first naval battle of the ...