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This template is for creating a standardized appearance for categories of battleships that were designed, built, or operated during World War II (1939–1945), and categorized in Category:World War II battleships.
The List of ships of World War II 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 ...
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The German pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots of World War II with the bombardment of the Polish garrison at Westerplatte; [3] and the final surrender of the Japanese Empire took place aboard a United States Navy battleship USS Missouri. Between the two events, it became clear that battleships were now ...
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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.
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