All 269 passengers and crew were killed, including four Australians. In 1988, the US cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 after mistaking it for an approach combat jet. All 290 ...

The USS Vincennes mistook the aircraft as a hostile military aircraft ... in the Persian Gulf soon after it took off from Bandar Abbas. All 290 passengers and crew onboard perished. The incident took ...

Earlier, at the Battle of Savo Island (near to Guadalcanal), the sinking of the USS Vincennes dumped a thousand men in the ... At New Guinea’s airfield, American ground crew would joke that the ...

A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western ...

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made the trek down the West Coast as it sailed from Bremerton, Wash., to San Diego, Calif., over the ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Four sailors from the USS North Carolina submarine are in North Carolina to continue to bring awareness of the state’s namesake, active-duty submarine.

In a rare move, the U.S. is beefing up Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...