USS Alabama USS Alabama, a South Dakota-class battleship, was launched in 1942 after the US entered World War II. At the height of WWII, the 680-foot warship had a crew of 2,500 members and was ...

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf War.

Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, despite a storied service history including shore bombardment with their 16 ...

Outnumbered at Calabria, HMS Warspite miraculously crippled the Italian flagship Giulio Cesare from over 15 miles, cementing her reputation as a terrifyingly precise battleship. From World War I's ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service ...

Ships played a crucial role in World War II, from large-scale engagements ... without which the United States would not necessarily have entered the war, and they continued to play a vital role ...

But most navies supplemented their battleships with faster and less ... design during the interwar period, the US entered World War II relatively flat-footed. Had the US had battlecruisers on ...

The Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey underwent ... the deaths of more than 58,000 people in the United States -- 14% of total World War II deaths. Despite the informational campaign associated ...

Both Japanese powerhouses were sunk during World War II, in the wake of which aircraft ... intercontinental ballistic missiles — the United States' first such weapon was the Atlas SM-65 ...