World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long dominated naval thinking, the war quickly showed that aircraft carriers and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class battleship, earned 11 battle stars in World War II. It fired the first US 16-inch ...

The Labor Day illumination will recognize the labor, ingenuity, and determination of the Brooklyn shipbuilders whose work continues to inspire nearly 250,000 visitors each year.

Though battleships saw extensive and meritorious service in World War II, the conflict exposed their weaknesses against the rising power of the aircraft carrier. For the first half of the 20th century ...

World War II was the largest military conflict in world history, and every side built massive machines of war to try to outdo the other. Japan famously built the largest battleships ever made, the ...

Between the 1880s and the end of World War II, the navies of the world built hundreds of “all-big-gun” battleships, including dreadnoughts and fast battleships. The massive seagoing behemoths evolved ...

Paul Robbins, the last living World War II-era Battleship New Jersey sailor, was honored on the ship Monday, June 15. Robbins, now 101, is the last known original crew member from the ship’s ...

The USS Essex went from keel laying to commissioning in 20 months. The Yorktown did it in about 16. Between December 1942 and ...

The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with ...