With Nimitz ' approval, Fletcher deployed his carriers northeast of Midway, reasoning that the Japanese would most likely come from the northwest, the west, or the southwest. This conceded the ...

A US Marines F-35B fighter jet has landed on the Japanese carrier Kaga for the first time, marking the first time in post-war ...

U.S. Yorktown Class Arguably the most successful class of warship ever built, and certainly one of the most decorated, the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier ... Japanese islands, ...

The exact location of the wreck remained unknown for decades ... in helping the U.S. win the Battle of Midway. The sinking of ...

A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...

Two months later, Enterprise would play a decisive role in naval history’s most intense aircraft carrier battle, The Battle of Midway. Midway pitted four Japanese carriers against three American ...

Thousands of albatrosses and other endangered species at a wildlife sanctuary north-west of Hawaii have been killed by the tsunami which devastated Japan, US officials say. Thousands of petrels ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean ...

Japan's defense ministry says that the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier Liaoning sailed in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan from Sunday through Monday, and the ministry confirmed that fighter ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan's shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its "serious concerns" to Beijing over China's increasingly ...