State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth ... In 1904, the Japanese and the Americans began thinking about “all big gun” ships, which would carry a larger main armament ...

For starters, navies around the world began building similar all-big-gun battleships. This shift forced other nations into a costly shipbuilding craze to maintain parity with their rivals.

‘Honor of firing the first shot’ Ramsey ... describes D-Day landing “Eisenhower had requested some battleships with big guns,” Ramsey said in an interview this week with Raleigh, North ...