In the early days of WW2 naval warfare, U.S. sailors doubted the thin-skinned destroyers entrusted to protect convoys and ...

In the late 1940s, the US Navy performed an 80% weight loss that almost killed it—going from 6,700 ships down to barely 300.

In September of ’43, we were attacked by over 100 Japanese planes, fighters, bombers, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers.” ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

Today, there's far less ship-on-ship combat, but the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the most lethal, as it can project a ...

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...