A famed Japanese destroyer sunk by U.S. torpedoes during a pivotal battle in World War II has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean more than 80 years after it sank, an exploration team ...

A Japanese navy destroyer torpedoed during a crucial Second World War battle has finally been discovered on the Pacific Ocean floor 80 years after it sank. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer ...

For nearly 75 years, the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56, a World War II Navy ship, eluded historians and relatives of the lost sailors. Even its location was unknown. N ...

When the Gambier Bay was sunk - the only U.S. carrier of the war to be sunk by ship-to-ship fire - Trainor and his comrades spent two days and nights adrift at sea in life rafts, surrounded by sharks ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 years. Now, human eyes have finally peered deep inside the doomed vessel, ...

This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat. The U-166 ...

Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific by a Japanese submarine during World War II. The baffling discovery was ...

“During World War II,” Chicoan David Bruhn writes, “German/Italian aircraft purposely bombed and sank thirteen Allied hospital ships in the European Theatre. A fourteenth hospital ship was sunk by a ...