In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of Wales while evading ...

The cancellation of the Montana-class battleships during World War II was not a missed opportunity but a wise decision by the U.S. Navy. Although these ships were designed to be the largest, most ...

The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial ...

It officially launched in the early 1940s as one of the Navy’s Iowa-class fast battleships. New Jersey shelled targets on Okinawa and Guam during World War II, participated in raids during the ...

The battle lasted about 2½ hours until the Japanese ... “That’s an example of the sacrifice that families made during World War II. These deserve to be honored and remembered in their ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship ... down American torpedo bombers”, the WW2 Database website says.

We have a battleship, durée : 2 min 49 s. Somebody's (ISBN 0-937858-00-5) (en) William H. Garzke et Robert O. Dulin, Battleships : Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II, Naval Institute Press, ...

#OTD in 1940, the Battle of Britain began, with the Luftwaffe attacking shipping in the English Channel and Channel ports and coastal radar stations on the South coast. There were widespread ...

John Basilone, who received both the Medal of Honor for his "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry" during the ...

Tony Ditcham, who had a grandstand view of the Royal Navy's last great battleship action, has died at the age of 102. Mr Ditcham himself landed some blows against the mighty German battleship ...

It's been claimed that Ripple Effect is working on a standalone Battle Royale mode for the next Battlefield, but it shouldn't ...