Only two nations have ever destroyed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Japan destroyed several during World War II, while Germany sank ...

The Glorious was sunk, along with both destroyers ... where battleships single-handedly defeated an aircraft carrier in World War II, leading to significant controversy and historical debate.

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

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 ...

The search for the Royal Australian Navy’s sunken World War II destroyer HMAS Vampire is underway off the coast of Sri Lanka ... The Vampire had been attempting to protect the Royal Navy aircraft ...