The US Navy’s four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a ...

The battleship Missouri opened fire on the coast of Kuwait on Monday, and in the muzzle flash of its 16-inch guns was a hint of the immense firepower allied warplanes have concentrated on Iraqis ...

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

A 16-inch caliber, 68-foot-long gun that was once mounted on the battleship USS Missouri was hauled from the U.S. Navy Weapons Station in Hawthorne, Nev. to a parking area near Rodeo Lagoon where ...

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

The battleships were armed with nine sixteen-inch guns, ... Over the course of her relatively short Vietnam patrol New Jersey fired 5,688 16-inch gun rounds and 14,891 five-inch gun rounds, ...

The U.S. Navy once considered a radical and powerful warship concept: the “battlecarrier,” a hybrid of a battleship and an ...

One U.S. Battleship Fired Nearly 6,000 Massive 16-Inch Shells During Vietnam War. ... Over the course of her relatively short Vietnam patrol New Jersey fired 5,688 16-inch gun rounds and 14,891 ...

US battleships fired their guns for the last time 30 years ago. ... USS Iowa fires a full broadside of its nine 16-inch and six 5-inch guns during an exercise near Puerto Rico, July 1, 1984.

Ex-battleship museum volunteer Martin Waltemeyer of West Chester, who formerly lived in Williamstown, worked as a Navy ordnance civilian weapons specialist on 5-inch and 16-inch diameter gun ...