President Trump’s plan for new American battleships appears to be going for a “bigger-is-better” mantra — perhaps a nod to the commander-in-chief whose name they will carry. The Trump-class vessels ...

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, ...

Last week President Donald Trump, with his customary fanfare, unveiled plans for a new “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships. “There’s never been anything like these ships,” the president declared ...

US President Donald Trump said he's thinking about bringing back US Navy battleships. Battleships were heavily armored, gun-wielding ships that dominated naval fights for decades. Aircraft carriers, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday the Navy will build a new class of battleships called the Trump class, with the first ship to be named USS Defiant (BBG-1). The ship will displace more than ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brothers Marvin (left) and Kevin Graham, descendants of Zachariah Jacobs, a man from Southeastern N.C. who fought on the American ...

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.