If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the world’s largest and most advanced battleships was discovered this ...

The Musashi and its sister vessel, the Yamato, were two of the largest battleships ever built. US warplanes sank the Musashi on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, believed to be the ...

Leyte Gulf was the last naval battle between battleships in history. It was now overwhelmingly clear that the aircraft carrier, with its air wing, was the most important weapon on the seas.

The U.S. Navy's Pacific presence provided a bastion against the onslaught of the Imperial Japanese's ambition to unite Asia ...

And here's a view directly on top of either the Fusō or Yamashiro as it's bombed by US aircraft from above, some of which were launched by the famed aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

meeting her end in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 after enduring 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits. -This event highlighted the decisive power of air superiority over traditional battleships.

When the USS Cooper (DD-695) was hit by Japanese torpedoes in the Battle of Leyte, a famed PBY “Black Cat” was up to the task ...

The story of the Second Battle of the ... was steaming south toward Leyte Gulf. The Unseen Players. The Japs ran into heroic but weak defense. Their heavy-gunned battleships closed on the U.S ...