A new DDG 129 Aegis Guided Missile Destroyer was just christened. The USS Jeremiah Denton was named after United States ...

Leyte Gulf was the focus of “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” (2004), the book that cemented James D. Hornfischer’s reputation as one of the master storytellers of World War II history.

A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was put in peril on Nov. 14, 1943, all because of a torpedo inadvertently ...

By Sept. 4, 1942, French found himself aboard the destroyer-turned-transport ship USS Gregory as it returned from delivering a Marine Raider battalion to Savo Island.

The naval destroyer USS Borie sinks in the North Atlantic on Nov. 2, 1943, after being heavily damaged in a battle with a German submarine, U-405, the previous day.

In 2007, Roy Andersen wrote a book about the ship’s wartime service titled “Three Minutes Off Okinawa.” He died in 2014 at age 94, his son said.