Wikimedia Commons/Edward Steichen The December 1943 Bombardment of Nauru by USS North Carolina On December 8, 1943, the USS ...

For nine months, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) faced the most intense combat a carrier strike group in a generation under fire ...

Marshall Islands Raid USS Intrepid reached Pearl Harbor on January 10, 1944. This aircraft carrier was brand new, having ...

In the tense darkness near Guadalcanal, radar operators aboard USS Helena tracked approaching contacts with growing alarm, ...

During World War II, the Pacific theater was marked by powerful naval clashes, including the rise and fall of Japan’s super-battleship Musashi, which met its end at the Battle of Leyte Gulf despite ...