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USS South Dakota: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and by 1945 some 76 Bofors 40mm and 67 Oerlikon...
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USS South Dakota: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and by 1945 some 76 Bofors 40mm and 67 Oerlikon...
USS Indiana: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and then the real wartime armament: 76 Bofors 40mm and 67...
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a...
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." The...
An Iowa-class battleship's 16-inch guns threw a 2,700-pound shell about 24 miles. In the 1980s the US Navy pulled out four 5-inch mounts and...
"Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best." Chester Nimitz said that, and he was given the chance to prove...
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing," Patton said, and then the war ended and he did not get to. On 9...
Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
In 1916 a board of 5 retired Army generals was given every Medal of Honor the United States had ever awarded — 2,625 of...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...