The argument is that the World War II battleships could once again be employed in force projection around the globe. However, the recent repairs that USS New Jersey undertook are a reminder that ...

The Battleship Iowa, a tourist attraction in the Port of Los Angeles since 2012, is among the more recent additions to the ...

The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, represented formidable naval power before being sunk in 1945.

The US Navy website describes the Musashi as a “mighty battleship” that had “mammoth ... knocking down American torpedo bombers”, the WW2 Database website says. “Running into one of ...

Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that ... of Wales was a King George V-class battleship and the most advanced in the ...

Kennedy, Jr., and the submarine USS Lionfish. Battleship Cove is the world ... both of which were completed just after World War II; LCM 56, a landing craft used to transport troops and equipment ...

And here's a view directly on top of either the Fusō or Yamashiro as it's bombed by US aircraft from above, some of which were launched by the famed aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

Built in 1943, the USS Becuna is a Balao-class submarine with a Greater Underwater Propulsive Power, or GUPPY, 1-A modernization — today, it's the only remaining GUPPY 1-A submarine in the world.

The Battleship North Carolina ranked 5th in USA TODAY's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards for best museum ship. Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts, secured the top spot in the voting.

When U.S. forces sank the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi off the Philippines in World War II, about 1,000 of its 2,399 crew members lost their lives. Now, the accounts of 183 of those ...