USS Hornet’s first life included the Doolittle Raid, Midway, and the brutal fighting around the Solomon Islands. Her short ...

After one Hornet was lost, a new carrier carried the name back into battle across the Pacific. From Santa Cruz to Okinawa, ...

The ⁠USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier and Carrier Air Wing 8 recently returned from the Middle East, with its Super Hornets showing new markings from the operations against Iran. The ...

An International Harvester aircraft tug can be seen onboard the USS Hornet, located by the late Paul Allen's R/V Petrel expeditionary team. (R/V Petrel) The research vessel of the late Paul Allen, ...

The U.S. military has long sunk decommissioned ships such as the USS Juneau to test weapons in live-fire exercises.

The USS Herring was lost at sea on June 1, 1944. On June 1, 2026, 82 years to the day it sunk, researchers announced it had been positively identified off Matsuwa Island in Japan.

A family's decadeslong mission to honor a World War II naval commander and those lost aboard his ship culminated Father's Day weekend at a shipwreck site about 30 miles off the coast of Cape May. Doug ...

A U.S. sailor signals an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 2026. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. military on Monday disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that U.S.

Rep. Thomas Massie plans a House floor speech this week as survivors and a FOIA lawsuit renew attention to the 1967 attack. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), plans to address the USS Liberty on the House ...

The USS Herring entered service in 1942 and completed eight war patrols. Naval History and Heritage Command In June 1944, the USS Herring was on patrol in the Pacific Ocean when Japanese troops struck ...

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