Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been. America’s ...

The USS North Carolina is more than just a steel beast with an impressive record from a bygone war. It’s a time capsule: a ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built for the Navy. It was commissioned in April 1941, served during World War ...

Coming in number five on the 10Best List was USS North Carolina (BB-55), the U.S. Navy’s first of 10 “fast battleships.” Decommissioned in 1947, the warship was saved from scrappers in 1960 ...

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.

The British ships on which the brunt of the fighting fell were the battlecruiser fleet and some cruisers and light cruisers, supported by four fast battleships. Among these the losses were heavy.