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Preliminary design work for the Montana class began before the US entry into World War II. The first two vessels were approved by Congress in 1939 following the passage of the Naval Act of 1938. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor delayed the construction of the Montana-class.
List of battleships of World War II Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned End of service Fate Alabama United States Navy: South Dakota: fast battleship: 35,980 16 August 1942 9 January 1947 Decommissioned 9 January 1947; museum ship: Almirante Latorre Chilean Navy: Almirante Latorre: super-dreadnought: 28,550 1 August 1920
Colorado-class battleship; Iowa-class battleship; Nevada-class battleship; New Mexico-class battleship; New York-class battleship; North Carolina-class battleship; Pennsylvania-class battleship; South Dakota-class battleship (1939) Tennessee-class battleship; Wyoming-class battleship
Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first American ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. [4]
The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato (8 August 1940), seen in 1941, and her sister ship Musashi (1 November 1940) were the largest battleships in history. By contrast, the Imperial Japanese Navy had the advantage of a dozen operational battleships early in the war, but chose not to deploy them in any significant engagements.
The United States Navy (like the IJN) had followed Alfred Thayer Mahan's emphasis on concentrated groups of battleships as the main offensive naval weapons. [2] The loss of the battleships at Pearl Harbor forced Admiral Ernest J. King , the head of the Navy, to place a primary emphasis on the small number of aircraft carriers.