Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era ...

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 U.S. Navy did not finish construction of the USS Illinois battleship because aircraft carriers became the dominant naval ...

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 ...

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 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 ...