Can we imagine a scenario in which two titans of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese battleship Yamato, would come into conflict? Difficult, but not impossible. Had the ...

A marvel of German engineering, the Bismarck- class battleship Tirpitz was designed to project power and challenge the British Royal Navy’s command of the High Seas.

In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history.

Germany's pocket battleships didn't weigh more than the Treaty of Versailles stipulated its battleships could weigh, but they were armed just as heavily.

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, it had a sizeable fleet of battleships as well. The United States even used a surrendered German battleship ...

For decades, the battleship was the symbol of a nation’s naval might. These vessels were hundreds of feet long, displaced tens of thousands of tons, bristled with massive guns, and were sheathed ...

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens … ...