A look at every U.S. aircraft carrier sunk in WWII, from USS Langley to USS Bismarck Sea, the battles they fought, and the sacrifices of their crews.

Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Coral Sea—were the U.S. Navy’s first “big deck” carriers with armored flight ...

Some of the largest and most significant battles in history were fought with aircraft carriers. Here are five historic ...

USS Hornet sank in 1942 in key World War II battle Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, researchers have located the final resting place of the USS Hornet, the World War II aircraft carrier sunk in a 1942 ...

In the murky depths thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, two Japanese warships that have rested undisturbed since the Battle of Midway in World War II have been discovered.