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A US Navy Iowa-class battleship hit and nearly ‘sliced off the bow’ of a Navy destroyer

In May 1956, a Navy PR cruise off the East Coast turned disastrous when heavy fog and a radar outage left destroyer USS Eaton ...
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Operation Desert Storm Was the Battleship’s Swan Song

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army. Decommissioned in the 1950s as nuclear ...