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The Battleship USS Illinois Is a Forgotten Footnote in History
Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been. America’s ...
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Repeat After Me! Navy Iowa-Class Battleships Will Never Sail Again
The U.S. Navy ended World War II with twenty-three battleships of all types. By 1947, the Navy had shrunk to peacetime levels ...
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Is It Time for the Navy to Reassess the Importance of the Aircraft Carrier?
RELATED: The U.S. Navy Needs to Radically Reassess How It Projects Power Henry J. Hendrix of the Center for a New American Security argues that, like the battleships which carriers were originally ...
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Nazi Germany’s Dreams Of Naval Supremacy Sank With The Bismarck
The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship ... was intended to be the first of a class of similar battleships, she was ultimately the only of her kind ...
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Illusion of 'dazzle' paint on World War I battleships
A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of 'dazzle' camouflage on battleships in World War I has found that while dazzle had some effect, the 'horizon effect' had far more influence ...