Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the ...

The day after the main battle at Midway, the Japanese cruiser Mikuma is retreating westward, damaged and trailing oil... With ...

On Thursday, dozens gathered at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton to recognize the 80th anniversary of D-day and the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Midway. “Nations go to war, but it’s the ...

As the battle intensifies, waves of American torpedo bombers and dive bombers from Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown launch an ...

When the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) was located in 1998, it put a headstone on the Battle of Midway. Navy reports recorded the location of the ship when she sank on June 7, 1942, but it was ...

Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway, including the first up-close photos of a Japanese aircraft carrier since it ...

2017-06-02T20:46:36-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...

The Battle of Midway, fought 70 years ago this week, was an extraordinary victory for the U.S. Navy and proved to be the strategic pivot in World War II’s Pacific theater of operations. During the ...

During World War II, military officials reported naval aviators flew from aircraft carriers, projecting air power across vast stretches of the Pacific Ocean, and participated in major battles such as ...

HAWAII, USA — Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway, including the first up-close photos of a Japanese aircraft ...