Initially, the US Navy planned to build five Montana -class battleships: Montana (BB-67), Ohio (BB-68), Maine (BB-69), New Hampshire (BB-70), and Louisiana (BB-71). The construction was set to take ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought near the Philippines over several days with a number of different engagements. The ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) — As the nation celebrates its 248th birthday, dozens of new U.S. citizens celebrated their own milestone Thursday. "I see freedom," said Jonathan A. Monger as he looked up at the ...

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army.

U.S. Navy planners in the Pacific, still overestimating the value of battleships, could have been less daring in their absence and fought a holding action until late 1942 or 1943. Had things been ...

The Battleship North Carolina will be illuminated in red, white, and blue on the evening of Thursday, September 11, in ...

At first glance, Ingo Bauernfeind’s book on American battleships appears to join the great works by Siegfried Breyer and Garze and Dulin, but this new volume from Casemate offers both more and less.

The global left is rallying in solidarity with the 11 narco-terrorists to whom Trump “gifted” a new drug that apparently lets you fly. The only one who really got the message is Nicolás Maduro, who’s ...

During World War II, tyranny and destruction swept over continents, and the very foundations of our freedom stood in peril.

It marked the official end of World War II. The ceremony happened on the deck of an American battleship, the USS Missouri, moored in Tokyo Bay. Hundreds of people crowded the deck to watch or ...