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The Nevada-class battleship was built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation and was commissioned in 1916. As part of the first U.S. Navy class of oil-burning dreadnoughts,...
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The Nevada-class battleship was built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation and was commissioned in 1916. As part of the first U.S. Navy class of oil-burning dreadnoughts,...
Justly or not, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines don’t seem to make the cultural grade compared to battleships.
In June 1940, France was defeated. Poland, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium were occupied, while Austria and Czechoslovakia had previously been incorporated in...
While not remembered by general naval historians, Italy’s World War II battleship fleet was quite powerful. The Roma was one such battleship that history...
She wasn’t as beloved as the B-17 Flying Fortress, and she didn’t make the literally earth-shattering history of the B-29 Superfortress. But nonetheless, the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber...
In the 1960s, the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) - an old World War II escort aircraft carrier performing supply-carrying duties at the time - was...
Even when the M1 Garand officially replaced the M1903 as the official standard-issue infantry rifle of the U.S. Armed Forces, that did not mean...
It is a common theme in science fiction and "what if" – or alternative history – stories: the swastika banner of the Third Reich...
Today the USS Arizona memorial serves to honor the 1,177 men who perished onboard during and following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor,...
The United States military tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on...