Key Points and Summary – This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. 9pm WORLD WAR II MEGA WEAPONS - History - This series unveils the engineering ...

The fate of the Pacific Theater of War had nearly been sealed in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. US forces had done the impossible. They had taken down over 600 Japanese warplanes leaving Japan's ...

That’s a lot of battleships. With its immense resources and industrial capacity, the United States would have become the world’s premier battleship power, followed by the Royal Navy. The other major ...

The USS Texas — the last surviving battleship to serve in both world wars — sailed for the first time in 32 years Wednesday to undergo millions of dollars in repairs, said the Battleship Texas ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

The crew of the USS West Virginia poses under the massive guns of the Colorado class destroyer. The ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor, salvaged and refitted, then participated in several major naval ...

The first Japanese battleship sunk by US forces during World War II has been found off Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands and the location of fierce battles during the Pacific War. The ...

This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...