This year, Utah’s Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars honored Utah’s five Medal of Honor holders: Mervyn Bennion (World ...

View on the flight deck of carrier Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) The next day, on May 8, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea reached its crescendo.

Starting from a minor position two decades ago, China is now the world's premier shipbuilder — and it's not even close.

We should consider poor state of US shipbuilding a national security crisis; if we lose a major war with China in coming ...

May 8, 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea. Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa from Scouting Squadron FIVE (VS-5) in an SBD Dauntless, is in patrol over the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5).

We’re a long way from when Admiral Nimitz could insist that the USS Yorktown get repaired in three days after the Battle of the Coral Sea. We’re even further from when the U.S. could by the ...

This time, it’s for the destruction of marine ecosystems and damage inflicted upon Philippine ships by Chinese vessels. Read ...

The first major test for the SBD Dauntless came during the Battle of the Coral Sea, when the aircraft was used to sink two Japanese vessels, the light aircraft carrier (CVL) Shoho and the fleet ...