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National Security Journal on MSN5 天
USS Illinois: The Forgotten Iowa-Class Battleship The Navy Never Finished
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...
National Interest on MSN26 天
The Battleship USS Illinois Is a Forgotten Footnote in History
America’s Iowa-class battleships were engineered in the late 1930s to counter the growing threat of the Imperial Japanese ...