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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...
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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...
Inside one outer casing sat five separate pressure hulls: two complete parallel main hulls side by side like a catamaran, plus three more for...
"Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men." Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded more than 2,000,000 men and...
They opened the war with cruise missiles, spent five weeks doing the oldest job in naval warfare, took the only enemy missiles fired at...
The famous six words are a compression nobody wrote down on the day — and the piece says so, quotes the documented versions, and...
The Navy has spent or committed $1.4315 billion to inactivate, store and dismantle USS Enterprise. While the bill is massive, the work that needs...
GAO put the cost of reactivating and modernizing all four Iowa-class battleships at about $1.7 billion. Only two reached the Persian Gulf. USS Missouri...
An official Navy photograph puts USS Hawaii at 82.4 percent complete when work was formally suspended on 17 February 1947. All three 12-inch turrets...
Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were larger, carried heavier guns and wore thicker armor. The Iowa class still offered the stronger overall combat system through superior...
Germany laid down two H-39 battleships in 1939. Each was designed to displace roughly 62,600 tons, make 30 knots and carry eight 16-inch guns....