Here’s What You Need To Remember: The USN prioritized slow, well-armored battleships that could operate together in a line-of-battle. Had the Navy paid more attention to European trends in ...
The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, newer, faster ships would soon enter service, but the ...
On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...
The USS Quincy is one of the 20,000 ships sunk during WWII, and it's been resting out of sight since it was first discovered in 1992 - unitl now.
The U.S. warship was sunk by a Japanese submarine in July 1945. It delivered parts for the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine ...
In the chilling waters of the North Pacific, a high-stakes game of World War 2 naval warfare was about to unfold. By March ...