Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

The Montana-class battleships, conceived under the 1940 Two-Ocean Navy Act, were envisioned as the U.S. Navy’s most ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Seaforth / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. Pp. 224. Illus., diagr., tables, sources, biblio., index. $ 60.00. ISBN:1399059963 Mounting Britain’s ...

U.S. soldiers and Marines have fired Raytheon’s Excalibur guided artillery shell more than 1,000 times in land combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems is vying to ...

Key Points and Summary - The US Navy's four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a crucial role in the Korean War, primarily providing ...

Anyone who has driven through Pennsylvania likely knows that there are rarely “straight” and open roads. The geography of the Keystone State varies from a sea-level marine estuary to a mountainous ...

The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...

The naming choice for the lead-ship and thus a class of the battlewagons was unique – as it was essentially a do-over for the 40th state. During the First World War, the U.S. Navy began to move ...