USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. W hen it comes to legendary ...

Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

They still had battleships—the backbone of ... of leveling off and racing toward an American ship, the weapon would bury itself in Pearl Harbor’s muddy bottom unless somebody thought of ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

the ship served in the Korean War and the Gulf War before docking in Pearl Harbor and opening as a memorial. It holds the distinction of being the world's last active service battleship.

His death comes a year after that of Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, a battleship sunk by the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Conter, who was just ...

Battleship Row on Dec. 7 ... We had long since identified all the ships of the Kido Butai that had attacked Pearl Harbor, and their silhouettes were posted on the wall in the Estimates Section.

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship ... ship would have given one of its own sailors. Eighty years later, the Missouri is a museum moored at Pearl ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial ... April 11, 2025, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) ...