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Nobody expected the B-25 Doolittle Raid to do material damage. The bomb loads were too light and every planner involved knew it before the...
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Nobody expected the B-25 Doolittle Raid to do material damage. The bomb loads were too light and every planner involved knew it before the...
On the night of October 25, 1944, a Japanese force pushed north through Surigao Strait and found six American battleships waiting across its path....
Supporting the landings on Tinian in 1944, USS Colorado was struck 22 times by Japanese shore batteries. Forty-three of her crew were killed and...
Built at Mare Island under a $12.75 million cost limit, USS California displaced 32,300 tons and fired an 18,000-pound broadside. Two torpedoes and a...
USS West Virginia was the last completed Colorado-class battleship, armed with eight 16-inch guns and driven by turbo-electric propulsion. Sunk at Pearl Harbor, she...
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars,...
USS Missouri combined 58,000 tons, 212,000 shaft horsepower and nine 16-inch guns with combat service in World War II, Korea and Desert Storm. A...
Key Points and Summary – In November 1940, Britain’s Royal Navy used HMS Illustrious to launch a night raid on Italy’s fleet at Taranto,...
Key Points and Summary – Pearl Harbor has a second, forgotten catastrophe. On May 21, 1944, West Loch—packed with LSTs loaded for the Saipan...
Key Points and Summary – Eighty-three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy has completed a delicate salvage effort to protect...