The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - A World War II U.S. Navy ship has made its way up the Mississippi and has arrived in La Crosse. the LST-325 is the last remaining fully functioning ship of its kind in the ...

The clock has run out for the "Iron Woman." The USS Cabot, as the ship was officially known, is the last surviving light carrier from World War II and a ship that saw action in many Pacific battles.

USS LST 325, the last fully operational World War II Landing Ship Tank in the United States, will make a stop in Muscatine September 11 – 15. The 328-foot-long ship left its home port in Evansville, ...

Jefferson Elementary fifth-grader Aarian Talkington turns an anti-aircraft gun around on the USS LST 325 in Marietta Friday as part of a tour of the ship. (Photo by Michelle Dillon) MARIETTA — A group ...

Dirt caked under his fingernails, sweat dripping from the cap on his forehead and fitted in a worn engineer’s uniform, 68-year-old Dick Sterne walked down the ship’s rickety stairs with a smile, ...

A major tourism attraction in Micronesia is now threatened with oil pollution. Reports from the location say climate change ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

LA CROSSE — Almost 3,000 visitors a day have touched World War II history and occupied the space where American servicemen slept, ate and prepared for war in the USS LST Ship Memorial, a floating and ...

The U.S. Navy has employed a variety of rocket delivery ships for decades now, so it's not unusual for a missile frigate, Ohio-class nuclear submarine, or other ship to fire off destructive Tomahawk ...

The shipwrecks of Japanese warships have been beneath the waters of the remote Pacific atoll for around 80 years now, ...