In April 1942, just days after crippling two British cruisers off Ceylon, Japanese carrier-based dive bombers struck again.

Great Britain’s fleet at Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”) but which cartoonists now ...

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...