The event remains one of the few instances where battleships single-handedly defeated an aircraft carrier in World War II, leading to significant controversy and historical debate. How German ...

Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built ... throughout the European Theater of World War II. The Tirpitz had up to 320 mm of steel ...

Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...

Lastly, Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever built ... launch an airframe and test radar. During WWII, she shelled Vichy French forces in the German-held beaches in the Normandy Landings ...