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On October 25, 1944, off Samar, six US escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts of Taffy 3 ran into four Japanese battleships,...
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On October 25, 1944, off Samar, six US escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts of Taffy 3 ran into four Japanese battleships,...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...
Each A-150 or 'Super Yamato' battleship gun weighed about 227 metric tons and fired a 1,950-kilogram shell; a twin turret ran 2,780 tons. Japan...
The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
Japan could not match American industrial capacity, so its designers tried to win on individual ships instead. Yamato was the result: nine 18.1-inch guns...
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...
She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to Okinawa....
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed with the biggest naval...