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This World War II Battleship Fights Its Greatest Enemy Yet
The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...
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The German Battleship Tirpitz Was a Masterstroke of Psychological Warfare
Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built by Germany ... the European Theater of World War II. The Tirpitz had up to 320 mm of steel ...
The Collector: John Simanton’s ship model started when he was a teen and helped during his Navy career
John Simanton’s collection reflects a time when world wars were fought at sea – when mighty ships battled each other across roiling oceans.
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America’s Oldest and Newest Warship Classes That Fought in World War II
World War II U.S. Navy Veteran, Joseph McCarron, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by friends and loved ones earlier ...
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Last survivor of German battelship Graf Spee dies in Montevideo
Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...
WWII RMS Niagara shipwreck oil spill risk ignored despite $200m cleanup threat
It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been recommended since 2019 to survey the Niagara shipwreck to work out how much oil is ...