The largest ever mounted on a warship, each gun could fire 3,200-pound (1,460 kg) shells over 26 miles (42 kilometers).

The U.S. Navy did not finish construction of the USS Illinois battleship because aircraft carriers became the dominant naval ...

LA PORTE, Texas — Battleship Texas has a storied history as the last surviving battleship to serve in both World Wars, a source of pride for those who love it most. "Battleship Texas is one of the ...

The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

Vietnam was mostly a ground war. American and South Vietnamese grunts fought it out against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in the jungles and rice paddies of South Vietnam. There was also secret ...

Riding a battleship isn't an everyday experience, so when a family member messaged me in early March about a chance to ride one into dry dock, I thought he was joking. I was already aware of the USS ...

A national moment of remembrance and reflection as the country prepares for its 250th birthday Battleship NORTH CAROLINA ...

The most decorated battleship in the 247-year history of the United States Navy is getting ready for a sprucing up away from its home on the Camden waterfront. The Battleship New Jersey announced ...

CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Battleship Texas Foundation begins seasonal dry dock tours around the ship out of the port of Galveston. Tickets are going for $150 per person for tours that will be ...

(Tribune News Service) — As the Battleship New Jersey sits in the dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the next two months undergoing maintenance, the public will be able to tour underneath the ...