When the Prince of Wales went down during World War II, it marked the end of the battleship era. Here's why the naval tech ...

The U.S. Navy was the only power whose battleships ever fired their guns in anger after 1945, but the role those warships played in World War II simply ... on a surfaced German U-Boat – the ...

Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War 2, the massive campaigns of the sky, and other valiant battle fronts.

The hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships have emerged from the Danube River as its water levels have dropped. In the middle of the mighty river separating Serbia and Romania near the ...

The official end of World War II - it took place on Sept. 2, 1945, - packed a special symbolism for Americans: What had begun with battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor ended on a battleship triumphant ...

World War II was the deadliest international conflict ... there was already widespread resentment among the German people over the harsh terms imposed on their country in the Versailles Treaty ...

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton.