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The Iowa-class battleships fired a 16-inch gun that hit almost as hard as Japan’s 18-inch Yamato guns, at three-quarters the weight. Here’s what actually made it the be…

The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest ...
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I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class battleship, earned 11 battle stars in World War II. It fired the first US 16-inch ...
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Battleship USS New Jersey Fired 5,000 16-Inch Shells During Vietnam War

Summary and Key Points: The USS New Jersey (BB-62), an Iowa-class battleship, played a significant but relatively short role in the Vietnam War, serving from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1969.
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Fire! The 16 inch guns that erased a Japanese battleship in seven minutes

At point blank range in the dead of night, the American battleship USS Washington unleashed her main battery on the Japanese battleship Kirishima. In a devastating seven minute barrage, over twenty 16 ...
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I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.

The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with ...
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I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.

It fired the first US 16-inch shell of World War II, and the last 16-inch shell of the war overall. The battleship is now a museum where visitors can tour once top-secret areas. The USS Massachusetts ...