NEW ORLEANS — When you visit the USS New Orleans' Facebook page, it's hard to miss the account tag and link — it's @BigEasy18. Costing American taxpayers between $1.5 billion and $2.2 billion ...

Located in the Solomon Islands near Guadalcanal, Iron Bottom Sound experienced five major naval battles between August and ...

In a remarkable twist of history, the role of fruit in a WWII naval escape has come to light with the discovery of the USS ...

Researchers and scientists found a part of an 80-year-old damaged World War II warship more than 600 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean.

The USS New York emerged from a thick fog to a swell of patriotic music, loud cheers and hundreds of waving Old Glories. When it sailed past them and again vanished, at least one man said he had ...

A few flecks of residual paint and an engraved anchor were enough to link mystery wreckage at the bottom of the South Pacific to the saga of the USS New Orleans. Researchers aboard the NOAA Ocean ...

The $1.3 billion USS New Orleans is the fourth ship to bear the New Orleans name. The last one was an amphibious assault vessel that served during the Vietnam War and in the Persian Gulf during ...

USS New Orleans (LPD 18), the San Diego-based amphibious transport dock ship, will be the first to dock at the 950-foot floating repair facility.

Built with almost eight tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, felled during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the $1.2 billion USS New York departs Northrop Grumman about 7 a.m ...