USS Nevada was one of America’s most famous battleships during World War II and the only battleship that attempted to escape ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

Explore the Battleship North Carolina, the most decorated American battleship of World War II, now a museum in Wilmington.

Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...

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 ...

When the Iowa-class battleships were designed in 1938 most naval officers expected that battleships would mostly fight against other battleships with armor-piercing shells from their big guns. In the ...