Key Points and Summary – After the U-2 shootdown in 1960, the CIA needed a reconnaissance aircraft that could outrun missiles and hide from radar. Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart answered: a single-seat, ...

Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids from the Marshalls to ...

Much media coverage this past summer has been devoted to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, when Japan surrendered to the allied powers in a September 2, 1945 ceremony on the deck of the ...

More than 110 artworks reflecting a century of Vietnam’s history are on display in Japan, celebrating 50 years of Vietnamese reunification. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of ...

The restoration will include mussel removal, inspection, repairs and painting. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum raised $1.5 million for the project. Editor's note: Wisconsin Maritime Museum revealed Sept ...

This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. Amphibious warship USS New Orleans (LPD-18) left Okinawa, Japan, on Thursday, sailing toward U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, on ...

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Okinawa — The USS New Orleans left Okinawa on Thursday for its homeport in Japan more than a week after U.S. and Japanese sailors and Japan’s coast guard extinguished a ...

A fire broke out Wednesday on the USS New Orleans warship off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, leaving two sailors with minor injuries. The fire on the amphibious transport dock ship has been extinguished ...

The Navy declared a fire aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans extinguished following a 12-hour battle Wednesday night off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. 7th Fleet officials said the ...

A fire broke out Wednesday on the USS New Orleans warship off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, leaving two sailors with minor injuries.The fire on the amphibious transport dock ship has been extinguished ...