The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

As USS Missouri was providing artillery support to friendly forces during the first days of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, a completely unexpected event occurred near Kuwait's coast. On February 24, ...

The Iowa-class USS Kentucky (BB-66) was laid down in 1942 but never completed, a victim of World War II’s rapid shift from big-gun battles to carrier-led warfare. -As Coral Sea and Midway proved ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on October 12. Check what happened ...

Heather Campbell lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of federal funding cuts. Her husband serves as ...

In honor of the release of Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear war thriller A House of Dynamite, we've ranked 12 of the best nuclear ...

World War II was a battle fought on all fronts. Dogfights across the skies, devastating battles on land, and, of course, skirmishes on the high seas all featured in the globe-spanning conflict. Given ...

A piece of a World War II aircraft carrier residing for decades in Bergen County will soon be moved to the Battleship New Jersey en route to its eventual home at a naval museum under construction. The ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — More than a dozen units responded to a San Diego shipyard after a fan malfunctioned on a Navy ship, resulting in several personnel being transported to local hospitals for ...

Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S.

JEFFERSON CITY — A movie being filmed in Jefferson City is taking advantage of the Missouri film tax credit program, which was revived through a 2023 law. After a 10-year hiatus for the program, ...