Soemu Toyoda's complex plan for the much-depleted Imperial Japanese Navy to strike a blow against ... the Japanese First Strike Force lost heavy cruisers Atago and Maya to U.S. submarines Darter ...

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly ... a tragedy that also stands as one of World War II's most harrowing survival stories. The Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser and flagship of the 5th ...

The Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers ...

A force including the American and British heavy cruisers USS Houston and HMS Exeter and the Australian and Dutch light cruisers HMAS Perth, HMNS De Ruyter and HMNS Java set out to destroy the ...