When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: America’s first fleet carrier had fallen fighting precisely the kind of battle it had spent over a decade developing tactics for. Just a year later,... Here’s What ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true during the Second World War with the Pacific Ocean being a veritable battlefield ...

Witness the strategic power and versatility of the modern aircraft carrier in this volume of the "War File" documentary series. Vintage film clips and detailed computer-generated images reveal how the ...

In a series of engagements of the United States and Australian Navies against the Imperial Japanese Navy from May 4-8, the Japanese experienced their first failure of a major engagement since they ...