Battleships of World War II. Jane's. ISBN 0-7106-0078-X. Garzke, William H & Dulin, Robert (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II....
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Russian & Soviet Battleships. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-481-4. Preston, Antony (1972). Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated...
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submarine warfare. The Battle of Jutland in May/June 1916 was the only full-scale clash of battleships during the war, and one of the largest in history. The...
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History of Battleships From 1860 to the First World War. Southwater Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84476-299-6. Ireland, Bernard (1996). Jane's Battleships of the...
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The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that developed on the Western Front. Although vehicles that incorporated the basic...
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The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific...
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primarily by battleships. The Naval Treaties of the 1920s and 1930s limited the number of battleships, though technical innovation in battleship design continued...
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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North...
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This is a timeline of declarations of war during World War II. A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The...
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This is a list of battleships of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Black Sea Fleet...
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Scharnhorst class was a class of German battleships (or battlecruisers) built immediately prior to World War II. The first capital ships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine...
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number of obsolete battleships which might be made useful, supported by a token force from the army for routine occupation tasks. The battleships were ordered...
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during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare...
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in being. Furthermore, unlike new fast battleships such as the Iowa class, the slow battleships were incapable of operating with carrier task forces, so...
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to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied...
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World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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In World War II, French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was not a scene of major fighting. Only one large-scale action took place there:...
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Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were a group of five super-dreadnoughts built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. These battleships were superior in firepower...
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USS Texas (BB-35) (redirect from Battleship TEXAS)
Texas was the first and oldest of the eight U.S. battleships that became permanent floating museums; the other battleships honored in this way are Massachusetts...
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eight "fast" battleships, and ten prewar "old" battleships totaling over 70% of the world's total numbers and total tonnage of naval vessels of 1,000 tons...
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target of shelling by American battleships and cruisers, and aerial bombing by the Allies. For example, Nauru was bombarded by the American battleships North...
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ordered in response to French plans to build the Bretagne-class battleships. The design of the preceding Conte di Cavour-class battleships was generally satisfactory...
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of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare. London: Phoebus. Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World...
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sister ship Kongō, the battleship Nagato, and the "super battleships" Yamato and Musashi, the largest and most powerful battleships ever built, supported...
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) (redirect from Battleship New Jersey)
completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship used to provide gunfire support during the Vietnam War. During World War II, New Jersey shelled...
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heavy cruisers and 11 destroyers attacked the French naval base at Mers-el-Kebir. The French lost 3 battleships and 1 destroyer, 1,297 KIA and 351 WIA. UK...
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Warship (redirect from Vessel of war)
the same characteristics, only one firing solution will be needed to aim them all. Fast battleships were battleships which emphasized speed without –...
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which had originally consisted of six battleships, was now down to four battleships and one second class battleship (two had been lost to mines), but...
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Austro-Hungarian battleships. Following the construction of the final two Regina Elena-class battleships in 1903, the Italian Navy elected to construct a series of large...
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ISSN 0043-0374. Preston, Antony (1972). Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Battleships of All Nations 1914–1918. New York: Galahad...
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