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Key Points and Summary – USS Wisconsin—“Big Whiskey”—was an Iowa-class battleship that proved old steel could stay relevant. Fast for her size and built...
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Key Points and Summary – USS Wisconsin—“Big Whiskey”—was an Iowa-class battleship that proved old steel could stay relevant. Fast for her size and built...
Key Points and Summary – The Montana-class was America’s planned super-battleship: bigger, tougher, and harder-hitting than the Iowa class, with twelve 16-inch guns and...
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...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is linking Pearl Harbor history to today’s undersea fight by naming a new Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS...
Key Points and Summary – In the wake of Pearl Harbor, Washington sought more than battlefield victories—it wanted the man behind the attack. -That...
Key Points and Summary – Audie Murphy rose from poor Texas farm boy to America’s most decorated World War II soldier, earning the Medal...
Key Points and Summary – HMS Vanguard was conceived in World War II as Britain’s ultimate battleship, incorporating hard lessons from losses like Prince...
Key Points and Summary – The Montana-class battleships were meant to be the apex of US naval gunpower: 60,000-ton giants with twelve 16-inch guns,...
Key Points and Summary – Germany’s so-called “pocket battleships” — Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee — were Hitler’s workaround to interwar naval...
Key Points and Summary – In April 1989, a catastrophic explosion in Turret 2 aboard the battleship USS Iowa killed 47 sailors during a...