ALTON, Ill. – The USS LST-325, a World War II landing ship, tank (LST) turned floating museum, will be docked at the port of Alton from Sept. 18 to 22, offering daily tours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In early 1942, the United States launched a secret naval experiment to stop German submarines. At the center of that gamble ...

His wife had been a real-life Rosie the Riveter. He inspected the ships' welding. How I spent an afternoon with Arthur ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) - The only fully operational World War II Landing Ship Tank has arrived in Muscatine and will be open for public tours. USS LST 325 is known for its historic role in the ...

RICHMOND — A call has gone out for welders, construction workers, donors and other volunteers to help support the revitalization of the Red Oak Victory, a World War II ship docked off the Richmond ...

Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Low water levels on the Mississippi River have exposed the USS Inaugural near downtown St. Louis. The USS Inaugural, a World War II minesweeper, used to be a National Historic ...

Dirt caked under his fingernails, sweat dripping from the cap on his forehead and fitted in a worn engineer’s uniform, 68-year-old Dick Sterne walked down the ship’s rickety stairs with a smile, ...

SYDNEY (AP) — A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A fire engulfed a warehouse on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf early Saturday, sending a thick plume of smoke over the waterfront and threatening to spread to a historic World War ...