The evening sun lowers over the Pacific as Hiryū pushes through the waves. On deck, crews work fast, refueling and rearming planes for another strike. The mood is tense but focused—there’s still a ...

Decades after their discovery and after years of attempts, a team has finally been able to record the wreckage of the Battle of Midway. The battle, which took place in June 1942, saw the sinking of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Navy and the United States Navy faced off from June 2nd to June 7th, 1942 over Japan ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years, with ...

June 4 (UPI) --Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, the White House announced. The attack by the Japanese Navy on ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the ...

VIRIGNIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A commemoration event took place on The Oceanfront for the 82nd Anniversary of the Battle of Midway on Friday. This WWII battle was a turning point in the war for the U.S.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – World War II pilot James Muri, who saved his crippled B-26 bomber and crew by buzzing the flight deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway, has died in ...