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An official Navy photograph puts USS Hawaii at 82.4 percent complete when work was formally suspended on 17 February 1947. All three 12-inch turrets...
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An official Navy photograph puts USS Hawaii at 82.4 percent complete when work was formally suspended on 17 February 1947. All three 12-inch turrets...
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was one of the final ships in the United States Navy’s Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates (FFG). ...
When France fell in June 1940, Jean Bart was 77 percent complete with only one of her two main turrets installed. She escaped to...
Preparing USS Oriskany for the seafloor took years and roughly $20 million. More than 150 workers opened and cleaned over 500 tanks, stripping fuel,...
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...
On 17 May 2006, Navy divers detonated roughly 250 pounds of C4 placed throughout USS Oriskany and sank her off the coast of Pensacola,...
Germany laid down two H-39 battleships in 1939. Each was designed to displace roughly 62,600 tons, make 30 knots and carry eight 16-inch guns....
Marines lost almost as many dead in 76 hours at Tarawa in November 1943 as American forces lost across the six-month Guadalcanal campaign. The...
When people think of American aircraft carriers, they usually think about one of the many nuclear-powered carriers that the Navy has built over the...
Philadelphia began building USS Illinois in January 1945 as the fifth Iowa-class battleship. The all-welded, 45,000-ton design would have carried nine 16-inch guns, but...