McLEAN, Va. — There were too many people on deck for him to see the Japanese officials walk onto the USS Missouri, but Robert Kaufman remembers watching them surrender. Hundreds of men from d… ...

In February 1940, just five months into World War II, six German Kriegsmarine destroyers embarked on Operation Wikinger, aiming to disrupt suspected British espionage among fishing trawlers near ...

The prevailing narrative of naval warfare in World War II concerns how the carrier decisively unseated the battleship as the dominant naval weapon system. Yes, battleships mounted over a dozen ...

When one contemplates the Navy’s combat action in World War II, one mostly thinks of the naval war against imperial Japan, with only passing attention given to how our warships took on Germany ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Loose lips sink ships. The familiar mantra was prevalent around Northern Michigan in the early 1940s, when a pair of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers traversed Lake Michigan on ...

This is the photo Robert Kaufman, 97, has of the Japanese surrender ceremony, which ended the U.S.' involvement in World War II. Kaufman is one of the few remaining Naval Academy 1940 graduates.