World War II marked the end of the battleship era and the beginning of ... Midway pitted four Japanese carriers against three ...

Before aircraft carriers dominated naval warfare, battleships were the most powerful assets at sea, influencing major ...

The Iowa-class battleships were designed for major naval engagements during World War II but were primarily used for shore ...

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

Finally, he talks about the many terrain challenges American soldiers faced in ... Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He looks at the bombing ...

(These are World War II’s biggest battles.) Throughout the war, there were pivotal battles that turned the tide for one side or the other but these all came at great cost. The military assets ...

World War II may have definitively proved that battleship s and other big-gun surface warships were no longer the dominant naval weapons, but the battleship's days were numbered well before the ...

Henry Roy "Pete" Black Jr. enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 24, 1939, and died exactly five years later in the sinking of the USS ...