Although he had close calls, Connecticut World War II veteran Edward J. Apicella Sr. said he survived the hellish battle of Okinawa physically unscathed. But the Waterbury native, his voice breaking ...

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...

Christmas Eve, 1942. The USS Silversides, a US Navy submarine, is surrounded by Japanese warships on a covert patrol in enemy-controlled waters.And George Platter's appendix is about to burst ...

A US Navy officer charged with murder is facing death penalty, six months after his wife's body was found in a Japanese hotel room. Lieutenant Commander Christopher Olsen was charged on Wednesday ...

Warren Galkin, a Navy veteran and philanthropist, has died at age 95. Galkin played a key role in rebuilding the Japanese navy after WWII, fostering reconciliation between former enemies.

A U.S. Navy officer could face a court-martial on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his wife at a Japanese hotel last year, the service said Thursday. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen ...

Gwenda Moulton, aged just 19, sat with six other young women in their green uniforms in the small room she knew only as “Y Hut”, located at HMAS Harman outside Canberra. It was 1942, and as a ...

In 1975, the navy commissioned the USS Nimitz, a top-of-the-line nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a vessel still serving to this day. Ken Bridges is a writer, historian and native Texan.

According to the U.S. Naval Institute, Rear Admiral Toshiyuki Yokoi, a former Imperial Japanese Navy officer, recounted in 1954 that his mission at Okinawa was to "break up enemy carrier striking ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel ...

Nimitz's new team required more than crack pilots; the yet-to-be-named Blue Angels needed someone to lead them. Roy M. "Butch" Voris (center in the photograph) was born on September 17, 1919, in ...