Battleships in World War II
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battleships-in-world-war-ii-224-872119
title:
Battleships in World War II
text:
World War II saw the end of the battleship as the dominant force in the world's navies. At the outbreak of the war, large fleets of battleships—many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before—were one of the decisive forces in naval thinking. By the end of the war, battleship construction was all but halted, and almost every remaining battleship was retired or scrapped within a few years of its end. Some pre-war commanders had seen the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the future, a
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description:
Use of battleships during World War II
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleships_in_World_War_II
date created:
2008-05-27T18:09:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T07:24:40Z
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