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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
The Battle of the Coral Sea ended on May 8, 1942, the first naval engagement in which the opposing fleets never sighted one another....
The Iowa class was designed for a fight that never arrived. Four ships, 36 sixteen-inch guns, 33 knots to run down Japan's fast capital...
George Patton’s career repeatedly tested the resilience in his famous “bounce” quote, from West Point struggles to Sicily and Bastogne.
Before Yamato had even entered service, Japan was studying its successor. Design A-150, later nicknamed the Super Yamato, was to carry six 51-centimeter guns,...
George Patton’s famous line about West Point graduates and Texas Aggies remains historically disputed. Its deeper message still points toward his greatest military victory:...
The USS Essex went from keel laying to commissioning in 20 months. The Yorktown did it in about 16. Between December 1942 and the...
The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1,...
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to Okinawa....
Richelieu fled Brest days ahead of the German army, 95 percent complete and carrying Bank of France gold. A British torpedo found her at...