What You Need to Know: The top five WWII aircraft carriers—chosen for their strategic impact and bravery—include the iconic ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

During the Second World War, aircraft carriers were king when it came to naval power. Marrying the concept of heavy firepower with the likes of a contingent of aircraft gave naval vessels a fair ...

While the White House publicized the decision, the responsibility and authority to name ships lies squarely in the hands of ...

Since 1945 aircraft carriers have proved that they have an unrivaled ability to deliver massive firepower against the enemy at the same time as possessing the traditional flexibility of a navel ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier nicknamed “Fighting Lady,” earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation during World War II.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

More Sentinel Hub The Kaga, which is a helicopter destroyer undergoing conversion into the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained pierside at Kure naval base in Hiroshima ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...