USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
Today's US Navy may be poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago. A unique and little-known ship packed a formidable punch in the Korean and Vietnam wars. This ...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Missouri (BB-63), renowned for hosting Japan’s surrender in WWII, played a crucial role in the Korean War. Ordered to the Pacific in 1950, the battleship braved a ...
The War in the Pacific was one of the most vicious fights seen in naval history. The United States and Japan clashed multiple times in the waterways, with thousands dead in the wake of each major ...
Key Points - 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 ...
In mid-1945 the U.S. (USN) had an unusual, and unexpected, problem. With the naval war well in hand, the USN had plenty of battleships Navyand little use for them. Had the United States eventually ...
Key Points and Summary - The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch enemy capital ships. -Drawing ...
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