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A US Navy Iowa-class battleship hit and nearly ‘sliced off the bow’ of a Navy destroyer

In May 1956, a Navy PR cruise off the East Coast turned disastrous when heavy fog and a radar outage left destroyer USS Eaton ...
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USS Kentucky: The lost Iowa-class battleship the Navy never finished

USS Kentucky (BB-66) was conceived first as a Montana-class super-battleship and then reordered as an Iowa-class fast ...
Military.com

The American Destroyer That Sacrificed Itself to Turn Back Japan’s Battleship Fleet at Leyte Gulf

Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...
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Navy divers remove significant portions of WWII platforms from USS Arizona

The US Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, removed significant portions of two World War II-era ...
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How Does the US Navy Name Its Aircraft Carriers?

Most recent aircraft carriers have been named for US presidents—but this is not a hard and fast rule, and many other ...