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By 1968, North Vietnam had grown extremely proficient at defending its airspace against American warplanes, so the Navy turned to a platform Hanoi would...
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By 1968, North Vietnam had grown extremely proficient at defending its airspace against American warplanes, so the Navy turned to a platform Hanoi would...
Built at John Brown's yard in Clydebank, Scotland, Vanguard was an improved King George V design: 814 feet long, about 51,000 tons, with a...
USS Nevada: She was the only American battleship to get underway on December 7 — a deck officer had ordered a second boiler lit...
Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
Dr. James Holmes, the last gunnery officer to fire a battleship's guns in anger, recalls USS Wisconsin's 1988 return from mothballs: parts scavenged from...
HMS Hood was the most powerful warship afloat for two decades, built for £6,025,000 to beat a German battlecruiser that was never finished. Her...
USS Texas was commissioned in 1914, fought at Operation Torch, Normandy, southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and was decommissioned in 1948. She went...
Japan could not match American industrial capacity, so its designers tried to win on individual ships instead. Yamato was the result: nine 18.1-inch guns...
America drew a battleship to beat Yamato and never cut the steel. The Montana-class was authorized under the Two-Ocean Navy Act, named in December...
Two battleships as 1945 actually found them, one on one, no aircraft and no escorts. Yamato brings 72,800 tons, a 16.1-inch belt and nine...