Pearl Harbor half day tour Schneider was very knowledgeable and friendly. The entire tour was well paced with the Pearl Harbor visit and then a quick but interesting city tour. I recommend it if you want a half day tour and then hit the beach in the afterno...
The last IJN battleships:IJN Yamato, like Bismarck, is the subject of a post-war myth. Mysterious, because classified as highly secretive, it was known only by name by the US secret service in 1941 when she entered service. This ship and her sister, still fascinates the world today, justi...
All eight Battleships of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet were sunk or damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The newest battleships of the North Carolina-class were in the Atlantic and had to support operations against Germany. But the war would be entirely different than what the Navy...
Written By An Expert On The Us Navy In World War Ii And Augmented By Contemporary Photographs And Specially Commissioned Illustrations, This Book Tells The Story About Us Standard-type Battleships - From The Terrible Damage They Sustained At Pearl Harbor To Their Support Of The War-winning ...
Other Allied battleships present in Tokyo Bay include Admiral Nimitz' flagship USS SOUTH DAKOTA (BB-57), the Pearl Harbor veteran WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) and old battleships NEW MEXICO (BB-40), MISSISSIPPI (BB-41), IDAHO (BB-42), COLORADO (BB-45). HMS KING GEORGE V and DUKE OF YORK,...
[Photo] Japanese pilot view of US battleships and Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941 | World War II Database
[3] The photographic "take" during this mission is processed by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) at Pearl. The photo-interpreters and ship designers who reviewed the huge battleship in the photos suggested that she must displace at least 60,000-tons and carry 18-inch guns. ...
Right now, there is only one weapon in the world that can pummel an enemy with 17 tons ofsteeland high explosive every minute: anIowa-class battleship. If the service decided to reactivateIowaand its sister ships, it could be done.Shouldit be done? That’s up to the Navy to decide....
(in the Pearl Harbor strike), battleships were necessarily only in a secondary role, one for which, however, they were rarely used, since they were thought too valuable to risk, being held in reserve for the decisive surface battle that never did, and couldn't possibly, ever happen. Thus...
on the left in the photograph. Only three hours later did Japan formally declare war (a trait that was to reach its culmination at Pearl Harbor in 1941). A series of inconclusive naval actions followed. On April 12th two old Russian battleships slipped out of Port Arthur, but both hit Jap...