A rare homecoming unfolded aboard the Battleship New Jersey as Paul Robbins, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, returned to ...

Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...

Paul Robbins, the last known living World War II crewmember, returned to the Battleship New Jersey for an emotional ...

From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world's seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces ...

The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found ...

A century ago, the great navies of the world built hundreds of battleships to project power on the high seas. Today, only 10 remain, preserved as museum ships. Between the 1880s and the end of World ...

World War II was the largest military conflict in world history, and every side built massive machines of war to try to outdo the other. Japan famously built the largest battleships ever made, the ...