PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012.

The USS Montgomery, one of the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) successfully fired sea-based missiles at a target on land in a test that validated the ship’s surface-to-surface ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

The recent US Navy (USN) decision to buy a handful of amphibious ships should help bolster a shipbuilding industry that is ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B Roberts.

The U.S. Navy rapidly added new C-UAS (Counter-Unmanned Aerial System) capabilities to the Freedom-class Littoral Combat ...

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. The U.S. Navy is winding down construction of its littoral combat ship fleet with the recent commissioning of USS Beloit, and just the Cleveland and LCS-2 ...

The speeches before the christening highlighted the connection between the history of Pennsylvania's capital city and the ...

Carlos Del Toro could have picked any name. In explaining his choice for one of the Navy’s newest ships, the secretary of the Navy repeated Travis Manion’s reason why he would return to Iraq for a ...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced on Friday that two ships in a new class of vessels will be named in honor of two people who were among the first to reach the deepest known point in ...