The Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 became the largest naval battle in history. Japanese forces attempted a complex plan to trap and destroy the U.S. invasion fleet in the Philippines. Instead, the ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest and most decisive naval battle ever fought, involving hundreds of ships and aircraft across multiple theaters of combat. In October 1944, the Imperial Japanese ...

USS Mississippi (BB-41) fought across the Pacific for four years. She earned eight battle stars, took two kamikaze hits and kept firing at enemy positions. She survived two catastrophic turret ...

IT IS A 20 MILE WIDE STRETCH OF WATER IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC’S SOLOMON ISLAND CHAIN, KNOWN AS IRONBOTTOM SOUND. IRONBOTTOM SOUND WAS THE SITE OF PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL NAVAL BATTLES, ACTUALLY ...