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Japan hid the biggest battleships ever built so well that US intelligence still thought they had 16-inch guns four months after one sank

The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and ...
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The USS New Jersey fired almost as many 16-inch shells in a single Vietnam tour as it did in World War II and both Korean War tours combined

The USS New Jersey, "The Big J" — the most-decorated battleship in United States Navy history — completed a $10 million dry-docking overhaul in spring 2024 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and ...
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I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.

The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with ...