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The 728-foot North Carolina-class battleship fired a 24,300-pound broadside from nine 16-inch guns. She earned 13 battle stars, survived a 1944 collision with USS...
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The 728-foot North Carolina-class battleship fired a 24,300-pound broadside from nine 16-inch guns. She earned 13 battle stars, survived a 1944 collision with USS...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...