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The second of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was often referred to fondly by her crew as “Big J,”...
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The second of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was often referred to fondly by her crew as “Big J,”...
The Iowa-class was the Largest and Fastest American Battleships Ever Completed: Anyone who has ever built a model battleship likely has been taken aback...
The Iowa-class Aircraft Carrier – It Almost Happened Twice: During the Second World War, construction was halted on the final two of the planned...
With primary armament that consisted of nine 16-inch (406mm)/50-caliber guns in three 3-gun turrets, including two forward and one aft, the U.S. Navy’s four...
The film Under Siege would be much less interesting if it were made today, since the rogue operators involved in this “Die Hard at...
She was the lead ship of her class, the fourth U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the state of Iowa. Today, the massive USS Iowa (BB-61) calls the Port...
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...
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...
Since the development of the HMS Dreadnaught, which spurred a naval arms race across the world, battleships were typically built with low design speeds....
In Honolulu, Hawaii this week they didn’t exactly party like it was 1945, and instead, there was a solemn reflection that marked the end...