The Alaska-class battlecruisers were conceived by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s to counter Germany's fast and powerful "pocket battleships" and Japan's rumored "super cruisers." Designed to be faster ...
Odd, right? And totally out of left field. As it turns out, Tom Chalfant, a World War II Navy veteran assigned to the USS Alcor, did in fact own such an instrument. He lugged it around the world ...