At the onset of World War II, the Japanese heavy cruiser Maya represented the pinnacle of naval dominance, her formidable ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21 ...

If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the world’s largest and most advanced battleships was discovered this ...

Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, comprehensive study of the battle of Midway, the most famous carrier battle of World War II. He has covered ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the ... Finally, Part Five, the longest of the five parts, covers the Battle of ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II ... naval battle in the history of warfare. The Battle of Leyte Gulf destroyed ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both ... Japanese battle groups were making their way toward the American beachhead on Leyte via the Surigao Strait.