America used to use the Midway Atoll as an unsinkable aircraft carrier, and it proved to be pivotal during WWII. Here's why and what role it served.

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. Newly released close-up videos and images of three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the Battle of Midway are reviving haunting ...

By MARK THIESSEN (Associated Press) Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and co… ...

The Japanese navy aimed to take control of the U.S. patrol plane base in a surprise attack at Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands roughly halfway between the U.S. mainland and Asia.

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

USS Enterprise (CV-6), the most decorated naval vessel in World War II, played a vital role in the Pacific. At the decisive Battle of Midway, it sank enemy warships, including three carriers.

Instrumental in the Pacific Front during WWII at the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, the 809-foot-long Yorktown was capable of handling 90 planes and staffing around 2,200 personnel.

June 4 (UPI) --Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, the White House announced.The attack by the Japanese Navy ...

Midway depicts US Naval fighter pilots, led by Dick Best, attacking a Japanese base in the Marshall Islands in 1942.

The Battle of Midway in June 1942 is regarded as a decisive U.S. victory in the war against Japan during WWII — and on this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Midway naval battle ended.

Remote submersibles conducted archeological surveys of the Akagi and the Kaga, two of the Japanese aircraft carriers destroyed during the June 1942 battle, as well as the U.S.S. Yorktown.

The Battle of Midway took place six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.