Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. Navy, concerned by aircraft losses in the air campaign against North Vietnam, saw the battleship as a low-risk way of bombarding coastal targets without ...

The Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey underwent many modifications in its nearly 50-year history, but there’s one modification it doesn’t really advertise. If you’ve ever been in the “dental ...

The USS Texas is the last of a WWI-era class of battleship known as "dreadnoughts." It saw action in two world wars before becoming a museum in 1948. The repairs to its hull, expected to cost $35 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: “The battleship era ended…because they could no longer fulfill their roles in a cost-effective manner.” In many ways, the battleship represented the greatest-ever ...

In the summer of 1940, an Italian flotilla embarked on a grand expedition across the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Their mission: to equip their compatriots stationed in Libya. As the ...

The Second World War was fought on many fronts, with skirmishes occurring on land, in the air, and at sea alike. As a result, several forms of transportation and warfare became synonymous with the ...

In February 1991, USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin, two legendary World War II battleships, stood off the Kuwaiti coast—revived, modernized, and poised for action. Outfitted with cruise missiles and ...

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn't only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War ...