Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B Roberts.

The ship came under attack from the Allied forces, which crippled its rudder. The Imperial Japanese Navy then scuttled the Hiei and it was left to sink. The leisure boat operator repaired the ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...

But on August 21, a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was ... The three ships then completed the voyage to Shanghai. For their efforts, Swentzel was awarded the Navy Cross and ...

The shuttered steel works plant stands on the former site of shipyards that produced the Yamato, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, more than eight decades ago. The ministry is negotiating ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service ...

a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately sunk in a 1946 naval exercise. The USS Stewart, once called the "Ghost Ship ...

In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm. Soemu Toyoda’s complex ... American survivors of the Battle of Leyte Gulf are rescued by a U.S. Navy ship on Oct. 26, 1944. (National Archives) At ...