Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only extraordinary circumstances—particularly the lack of Combat Air Patrol—made the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day. Only ...

The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the Italian Navy off the southern coast of Italy. It was Italy’s first major ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...