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Article Summary – This article explains how the U.S. Navy dragged its Iowa-class battleships into the missile age. -Facing a growing Soviet threat, the...
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Article Summary – This article explains how the U.S. Navy dragged its Iowa-class battleships into the missile age. -Facing a growing Soviet threat, the...
Many people may not know it, but the United States came close to unleashing a nuclear attack on North Korea and China during the...
Some advocates of a U.S. foreign policy based on realism and restraint hoped that Donald Trump’s election as president would signal the end of...
Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships, the last and largest battleships built by the U.S. Navy, played a crucial role during the Korean War. -Reactivated...
Key Points: The Korean War, often overshadowed by other conflicts, saw the reactivation of WWII-era Iowa-class battleships to counter North Korean and Chinese forces....
North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
F-84 Thunderjet: A 10-Minute History – In 1944, Alexander Kartveli, designer of the legendary Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, began working on a jet-powered successor. Kartveli’s tubby-looking...
In the extraordinary chaos of the early days of the North Korean invasion, even a battalion-sized force might have succeeded in seizing Pusan, which...
Of three-thousand F-84Gs built, Washington transferred over 200 each to Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway and even Communist Yugoslavia as part of the...
F-80 Shooting Star: A Rising Star That Soon Fell – As noted in previous 19FortyFive articles on the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”) and...