Summary: In 1945, as World War II neared its end and with Japan’s naval capabilities largely neutralized, the U.S. Navy found an unexpected use for its battleships: bombarding Japanese ...

The museum is now home to one of the battleship’s bells – which proved to be far easier to transport to central Pennsylvania than the guns.

The battleship Missouri opened fire on the coast of Kuwait on Monday, and in the muzzle flash of its 16-inch guns was a hint of the immense firepower allied warplanes have concentrated on ...

Following a major $10 million dry dock refurbishment, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62)—the most decorated warship in U.S ...

America’s last surviving dreadnought to have served in both World War I and World War II, has been saved and secured a new ...

The Battleship Texas' freshly reinstalled 5"/51 deck guns (not seen here; these are the main guns) were deadly to aquatic or surface targets as far as 16,000 yards away.

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Japanese Imperial Navy’s Yamato, at one time the world’s largest battleship, is nothing but scrap.

Now, he wants to save World War II-era battleship gun barrels from a planned scrap auction. Marshall is urging Virginia’s congressional delegation to stop an auction of barrels in storage that ...

One of Nevada’s most heralded World War II veterans who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago and saw the battleship guns blazing against the shores of Normandy died Sunday at his ...

When Potential Tropical Cyclone #8 ravaged the Cape Fear Region, it also damaged an icon of Wilmington’s waterfront. But the ...