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How Japan’s Battleship Yamato Became a Pop Culture Sensation: Many American kids today (and probably too many adults) are more likely to know more...
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How Japan’s Battleship Yamato Became a Pop Culture Sensation: Many American kids today (and probably too many adults) are more likely to know more...
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...
Battleship Iowa to Become First National Museum of the Surface Navy? USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead vessel of the United States Navy’s final...
Falklands War, The Aircraft Carrier War That Never Occurred: In 1982, after years of simmering tensions, Argentina and the UK went to war over...
The Titanic, A Troop Transport? It was the Biblical prophet Isaiah who first proclaimed “…they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears...
Today, there are eight permanent museum battleships in existence in the United States – nine if you count the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl...
Battleship Montana: The Super Battleships Never Built – In September 2020, the future Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Montana (SSN-794) was christened in a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)...
Despite being de facto “allies” in the years leading up the First World War, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy distrusted each other. The...
Naming conventions in the U.S. Navy can’t always be explained. Aircraft carriers are now named for past U.S. presidents or those who played an...