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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...