What would happen if a modern U.S. supercarrier faced the entire Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II? This thought ...

The ship was downed after an intensive battle with the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942 while under the command of Lt. Joshua Nix. Accounts report that a Japanese carrier-based plane had spotted the ...

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese ...

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said. It was found in deep waters south of Australia's Christmas Island.

The Battle of Ormoc Bay would go on to claim six American ships and 31 Japanese. Ironically, the USS Cooper was named for Elmer G. Cooper, a PBY Catalina pilot that had been killed in a crash in 1938.

Anatomy of Yamato. In the mid-1930s, when battleships were the ultimate weapons in naval warfare, the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned an extraordinary ship called Yamato.It was intended to be ...