During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in ...

The 314-foot destroyer was located largely intact, and is resting upright on the seabed roughly 200 miles east of Christmas ...

In the late 1940s, the US Navy performed an 80% weight loss that almost killed it—going from 6,700 ships down to barely 300.

In September of ’43, we were attacked by over 100 Japanese planes, fighters, bombers, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers.” ...