At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since.

The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

USNA is graduating nearly three times the number of officers as it did in 1933 when the navy had 311 ships and nearly twice ...

The country that actually has the most war ships in a navy isn't who you might think it is, and that country is continuing to ...

The Wellington Trust has received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, enabling the ship to open to more visitors ...

A New Castle man was one of 58 Pennsylvania soldiers to die 81 years ago Sunday during an Allied invasion of Italy in World ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

After 75 years, the Bell Model 47 helicopter continues to be a valued workhorse for a wide range of odd jobs best done by air ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...