LA PORTE, Texas — Battleship Texas has a storied history as the last surviving battleship to serve in both World Wars, a source of pride for those who love it most. "Battleship Texas is one of the ...
The Montana-class battleships, conceived under the 1940 Two-Ocean Navy Act, were envisioned as the U.S. Navy’s most formidable warships. With a standard displacement of 60,500 tons and twelve ...
The USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. It's now a floating museum.
Riding a battleship isn't an everyday experience, so when a family member messaged me in early March about a chance to ride one into dry dock, I thought he was joking. I was already aware of the USS ...
Vietnam was mostly a ground war. American and South Vietnamese grunts fought it out against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in the jungles and rice paddies of South Vietnam. There was also secret ...
It was early June 1944, and the Allied forces were deep in preparations for Operation Overlord. From the highest command ...
(Tribune News Service) — As the Battleship New Jersey sits in the dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the next two months undergoing maintenance, the public will be able to tour underneath the ...
CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...