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USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
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USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
Britain spent £11,530,503 building HMS Vanguard, a figure that excluded her main guns, whose mountings had been built for the World War I battlecruisers...
USS Alabama cost about $80 million, displaced roughly 45,000 tons, carried nine 16-inch guns and earned nine World War II battle stars.
USS Texas entered service in 1914 with ten 14-inch guns, 28,100 horsepower and a 27,000-ton displacement. After fighting in both world wars and spending...
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...
Built for $52.8 million, USS South Dakota displaced 44,519 tons at full load and fired a 24,300-pound armor-piercing broadside. “Battleship X” survived Santa Cruz...
USS North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
The famous World War IV warning is a polished version of a thought Einstein expressed in 1949. His life moved from the Swiss Patent...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...