The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...
The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...
Authorised under the 1940 “Two Ocean Navy” building program and funded in the fiscal year of 1941, the U.S. Navy’s ...