Herewith is a summary of the five naval battles which have been fought off the Solomons since the initial attack on Tulagi: Battle of Savo Island. On the night of Aug. 8-9, the Japs caught a U.S.

On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was conducting an intelligence mission in the Gulf of Tonkin when it was suddenly ambushed by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The destroyer’s crew opened fire without ...

In the chaos of a night engagement, a destroyer commander made a decision no one had ever seen before. To fire a perfect ...

A destroyer is a floating ammunition and fuel dump, McDonald said. Among its duties was to be part of an outlaying circle around a major naval force to warn it of incoming enemy planes, surface ships ...

Two former Navy officers have located wreckage of a U.S. ship that sank in the Philippine Sea 76 years ago in what's being hailed the deepest shipwreck dive in history. A large section of the USS ...

The USS Edsall, which was sunk during World War II with more than 200 servicemen on board, has been located at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to the U.S. Navy. The 314-foot destroyer was ...

The U.S. Navy’s newest warship, USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) passes Coronado bridge on its way to Naval Base San Diego. Zumwalt is the lead ship of a class of next-generation multi-mission destroyers, now ...

Debrianna Scott waited on the Alpha 2 pier at Naval Station Mayport Monday morning for the arrival of a husband she has not seen since February. Joining about 40 other wives and parents, a mast they ...