USS New Mexico fought from Alaska to the Philippines, bombarding islands, shielding landings, and absorbing punishment that ...
Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...
US President Donald Trump said he's thinking about bringing back US Navy battleships. Battleships were heavily armored, gun-wielding ships that dominated naval fights for decades. Aircraft carriers, ...
U.S. Navy planners in the Pacific, still overestimating the value of battleships, could have been less daring in their absence and fought a holding action until late 1942 or 1943. Had things been ...
At first glance, Ingo Bauernfeind’s book on American battleships appears to join the great works by Siegfried Breyer and Garze and Dulin, but this new volume from Casemate offers both more and less.
One American battleship faced impossible odds in a night battle few people have ever heard of. Led by Rear Admiral Willis Lee ...