During the Battle of Casablanca ... USS Wisconsin, an Iowa-class battleship, was the second-to-last battleship built by the US and the last battleship to ever fire in combat.

Bismarck, despite its stunning victory, had not emerged from the battle unscathed ... German forces in France: “Ship ...

The remaining Courbets were eventually used as training vessels by 1939. The last surviving battleship in the class was the Courbet, which was sold off to be scrapped in 1947. The Austro-Hungarian ...

Leyte Gulf was the last naval battle between battleships in history. It was now overwhelmingly clear that the aircraft carrier, with its air wing, was the most important weapon on the seas.

On September 15, 1944, a 23 year-old Lancaster bomber pilot named Lawrence Goodman set off with his squadron on an ambitious mission: to drop a 12,000 pound bomb known as the “Tallboy” on ...