USS Parche charged into a Japanese convoy at full speed, reloading torpedoes on the surface in the middle of combat. Months ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Battleships lost their purpose due to advanced technological threats. Today, aircraft carriers are also threatened by powerful weapons. How can the U.S. Navy prolong ...
December 1939. In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee hunts Allied merchant ships with deadly precision. She sinks nine in three months before being cornered at the ...
LA PORTE, Texas — Battleship Texas has a storied history as the last surviving battleship to serve in both World Wars, a source of pride for those who love it most. "Battleship Texas is one of the ...
CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...
How can the U.S. Navy prolong the relevance of its big-deck aircraft carriers amid increasingly menacing surroundings? In part, through hindsight. Here’s What You Need to Remember: Battleships lost ...