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Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, wanted West Point, settled for Annapolis at sixteen, and put his first command on the bottom....
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Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, wanted West Point, settled for Annapolis at sixteen, and put his first command on the bottom....
America drew a battleship to beat Yamato and never cut the steel. The Montana-class was authorized under the Two-Ocean Navy Act, named in December...
Churchill was warning about Hitler in 1935, two years after Hitler took power and four years before Poland. He had travelled to Germany in...
Two battleships as 1945 actually found them, one on one, no aircraft and no escorts. Yamato brings 72,800 tons, a 16.1-inch belt and nine...
Winston Churchill had been prime minister for seventy-two hours. He offered Parliament nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat, and asked it to back...
Fabian Hoffmann of the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies put a number on it: around 50 FP-9s a month, accurate enough to hit high-value...
US Army General George S. Patton: His allies could not agree on him. Americans respected the results and found him impossible to work with....
USS South Dakota: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and by 1945 some 76 Bofors 40mm and 67 Oerlikon...
USS Indiana: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and then the real wartime armament: 76 Bofors 40mm and 67...
The Maus Tank: Frontal hull armor ran 220mm, the sides 190mm — thinned deliberately to save weight. The turret front was 240mm, the gun...