USS Illinois: Why The Doomed Iowa-Class Battleship Was Never Deployed

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...
Hawaii News Now

USS Battleship Missouri commemorates 80 years since the end of WWII

September 2 marks the formal end of World War II, symbolizing renewed hope for lasting peace. The war concluded with a ceremony of reconciliation aboard the USS Missouri, where General MacArthur ...
The Providence Journal

‘We came that close’: RI vet recalls kamikaze attack and Japan's historic surrender

Rhode Island native John DeLeo, now 99, joined the Navy at age 17 to serve in World World II. DeLeo served on the USS Missouri, which supported the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. DeLeo witnessed ...

The last operational World War II Landing Ship Tank makes a stop in the Ohio River

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.