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At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
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At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
Each A-150 or 'Super Yamato' battleship gun weighed about 227 metric tons and fired a 1,950-kilogram shell; a twin turret ran 2,780 tons. Japan...
The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
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...
Ten of the 12 Soryu-class boats run four Kawasaki-built Kockums Stirling engines that burn diesel with liquid oxygen, letting them stay submerged for up...
On March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit USS Franklin with two bombs about 50 miles from Japan. The Essex-class carrier, “Big Ben,”...
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,...
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone," begins a quote attributed to Douglas MacArthur, and few American generals tested that line harder....
On September 17, the State Department approved a possible foreign military sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighters to Saudi Arabia, a deal estimated...
He graduated 42nd in a class of 62 in 1904 and spent 23 years driving torpedo boats and destroyers. He was a captain from...