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 ...

Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold rush to stop the British sailing down Lake Champlain. After the defeat at Quebec City, a British invasion down the Hudson River seemed inevitable. Horatio Gates and ...

In one of the most extraordinary naval battles of World War II, the small American task unit known as Taffy 3 suddenly found itself facing a massive Japanese fleet. Outnumbered, outgunned, and ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 feet into one of the world’s deepest submarine chasms. The U.S.S. Johnston ...

On the morning of June 4, 1942, 41 Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers launched from three American aircraft carriers to attack the Japanese fleet at Midway. Of those 41 aircraft, 35 were shot down ...

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over. All battles change ...