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It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the...
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It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the...
Designed to intercept fast capital ships yet still capable of serving in a traditional battle alongside other U.S. Navy warships, the Iowa-class battleship successfully...
Building a warship has always been a costly endeavor – but until the advent of the aircraft carrier, the most costly warships were battleships....
Throughout much of the inter-war era, the United States Navy was in essence reined in by restrictions placed on it due to a series...
Fearing a potential war with Fascist Italy, the French Third Republic responded to the Italian Navy’s (Regia Marina’s) Littorio-class of battleships with its own...
Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese soldiers invaded the Philippines. Within days, Japanese soldiers were landing on beaches in...
Since her decommissioning in 1948, USS Texas (BB-35) has been preserved as a museum ship – and today she is officially the flagship of...
Even after the USS Missouri (BB-63) was officially decommissioned in 1992, the “battleship retirement debate” continued – with some military pundits arguing that the...
From mothballs to museum educating the public on the importance of the U.S. Navy. In our divided nation today, it can be hard to...