After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, ...
April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...
USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.