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Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...
Marine Corporal Robert J. Powers   Buy Photo During World War II, countless young men answered the call to serve ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.
USS New Orleans rejoins fleet after record-breaking repair job Her bow shot away in a battle with the Japanese in the ...
A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...
Eighty-three years after its loss in WWII, the USS New Orleans bow has been located using sonar and underwater robots.
On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...
After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum allows guests to sleep on the USS Cobia, a World War II submarine it lists on Airbnb.
On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were ...
Whether in his role as an educator or a historian, Neymeyer has touched countless lives. On Oct. 23, a group of 15 Northeast Iowans will travel nearly 6,000 miles over about 16 hours to witness ...
After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...