When the SS United States was launched in 1952, it was the era of crossing the Atlantic by ship, and people wanted to do it ...

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Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been.

and Best Revival of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Spring Awakening.

The US navy Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Minnesota is moored at HMAS Stirling in WA kicking off the first of two fast-attack submarine visits this year. The Virginia-class fast-attack ...

An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years after his bomber — dubbed "Heaven Can Wait" — crashed off the coast of New Guinea, U.S. officials revealed Monday.

Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the destroyer USS Ward was patrolling the waters ... but they had just fired the first American shots of World War II. Japanese warplanes began bombing ...

At least two people were killed when two small planes collided midair near an airport in Tucson, Arizona. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident. This marks the ...

USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) is headed to U.S. 4th Fleet, the Navy announced this week. Hudner, based at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., is heading to 4th FLeet as an independent deployer set to take ...

After serving in World War II and as a training ship afterward, the USS Becuna was enhanced with a GUPPY 1-A conversion in 1951. The submarine carried out various peacetime missions, such as ...

The USS Becuna submarine sank 3,888 tons of shipping and earned four battle stars in World War II. Becuna underwent a Greater Underwater Propulsive Power (GUPPY) 1-A modernization in 1951. Now a ...