At 2:00am on August 9, 1942, the Captain of USS Astoria was jolted awake by the deafening roar of shells slamming into his cruiser. 19,000 Marines' beachhead on Guadalcanal depended on the supply ...

New Zealand has agreed to pay $3.6 million in compensation to Samoa a year after a after a navy ship ran aground on a reef ...

More than eight decades since the “Day of Infamy,” scientists are still studying the Pearl Harbor attack. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Falmouth reported Friday that oil from the ...

Yet it wasn’t until the hotel moved to its present-day location on Park Avenue that its legacy was secured (the Empire State Building now occupies the original site). When the Waldorf Astoria reopened ...

More than a dozen business owners in Astoria have filed a lawsuit looking to block a planned protected bike lane on 31st Street. The petition, filed Friday in Queens Supreme Court, said the city’s ...

The Pacific Ocean was dark and quiet that night. Only the sound of waves hitting the USS Archerfish broke the silence. Inside the submarine’s metal structure, Captain Joseph F. Enright stood at the ...

World War II was a battle fought on all fronts. Dogfights across the skies, devastating battles on land, and, of course, skirmishes on the high seas all featured in the globe-spanning conflict. Given ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The USS George Washington quietly steamed out of Tokyo Bay on Tuesday to resume its annual patrol after an extended mid-deployment stop. The carrier was initially ...

The USS America arrived at its new homeport of Naval Base San Diego after concluding a six-year forward deployment in the Indo-Pacific region. America was forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan and the U.S ...

LHA-6 arrived in the Land of the Rising Sun in 2019, operating as “key asset with the Forward-Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF),” the US Navy explained. During the six-year mission, the USS America ...

Over breakfast at Manhattan’s Peninsula Hotel 11 years ago this month, the nattily dressed Chinese businessman got straight to the point. He wanted to buy the legendary Waldorf Astoria hotel. The two ...

USS America (LHA-6) and the Kongo-class destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173) on March 24, 2024. US Navy Photo USS America (LHA-6) is set to arrive in San Diego this week after six years as the ...