This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The United States showcased an impressive naval fleet in ...

In November 1942, thirteen American ships, none larger than a heavy cruiser, knifed through the dark, restless Pacific. They steamed headlong into the jaws of a massive Japanese task force boasting at ...

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In December 1942, after a year of a raging Pacific war, endless Allied warships arrived for repairs off Sydney Harbor. Some ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. As geopolitical tensions continue to rise across the ...

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, 1944. (Navy ...

The USS Indianapolis is shown at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1937. On July 30, 1945 the Japanese I-58 submarine torpedoed the Indianapolis, tearing the ship nearly in two, destroying much of the bow ...

Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says an expedition crew on his research vessel, R/V Petrel, has located the historic USS Indianapolis in the North Pacific Ocean. The USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser ...