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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...
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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...
The 7.92x33mm Kurz was the Mauser case chopped to 33 millimeters — enough reach for the fights soldiers were actually in, light enough to...
Ma Deuce: The M2 Browning .50 Caliber That Refuses to Retire – Some weapons are built for a war. The M2 Browning was built...
Through 1943, unescorted American daylight bombing over Germany was failing. The first Merlin-powered Mustangs reached Europe with the 354th Fighter Group in December 1943,...
Built at John Brown's yard in Clydebank, Scotland, Vanguard was an improved King George V design: 814 feet long, about 51,000 tons, with a...
"Every man is scared in his first battle," George S. Patton told his troops, and he spent 1944 proving fear could be controlled.
In September 1918 a German machine gun shot George Patton through the thigh as he led the 304th Tank Brigade forward in the Meuse-Argonne....
In May 1942 the skipper of USS Skipjack watched a Mark 14 pass under a Japanese ship. US Navy Rear Adm. Charles Lockwood’s net...
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,...