How one heroic crew helped win World War II’s largest naval battle

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...
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Researchers Find World War 2 Shipwreck From Famous Pacific Battle

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in the South Pacific. A research team aboard the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) ...

A tractor enthusiast wants to recover one onboard a sunken World War II carrier

When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...
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Why Liberty Ships Are Some Of The Most Important Vessels Of World War 2

At the turn of the 1940s, World War 2 was in full swing, with the Allied and Axis forces doing battle across Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Ocean. The United States hadn't gotten directly involved in ...
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U.S. History Documentaries About World War 2 and the Making of the Atom Bomb

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...