USS Leyte Gulf returned home after its last deployment, concluding nearly four decades of service. The guided-missile cruiser patrolled the South Atlantic to counter drug trafficking in the region.

Strategists in China make a habit of engrossing themselves in history. Betimes ideology tinges the findings they coax from the historical record, as one might expect from citizens of a communist ...

With the benefit of hindsight, the Allies may have seemed well on their way to victory by the latter half of 1944. In truth, there were still at least two big battles left to fight. In Europe, the ...

Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the modern era, involving some 370 ships and over 200,000 personnel, primarily from the United States and Japan. But in both Japan and the United States, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. USS Leyte Gulf returned home after its last deployment, concluding nearly four decades of service. The guided-missile cruiser ...