Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been.

The Development of the Mark 7 16-Inch Gun on Iowa-Class In the late 1930s, the U.S. commissioned a set of studies for “fast battleship” designs. The General Board, which considered design ...

It is the purpose of this paper to show that the designers of the war vessels of the United States in their first all-big-gun battleship adopted as the emphasized feature of the fighting machine ...

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KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

Battleship Texas has a new permanent home ... The foundation's website features photos of men manning some of the guns on D-Day while officers kept tabs on the action from the bridge high above.

Battleship USS IOWA held a Rock For Responders concert to honor Los Angeles first responders for putting their lives on the ...