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USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Initially to have been named Bon Homme...read more

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Las torpederas confiaban en los factores de sorpresa, agilidad y velocidad, para poder enfrentarse a buques enemigos mucho más grandes. El acrónimo MTB viene de Motor Torpedo Boat, o Lancha Torpedera a Motor, y designa a las lanchas rápidas torpederas que durante la II Guerra Mundial sirvieron...read more

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Battaglia navale a bordo di una corazzata italiana (1941) - (English) Naval battle on an Italian Battleship (1941) read more

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Tirpitz was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) during World War II. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven in...read more

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The I-400-class submarine Imperial Japanese Navy submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. The IJN called this type of submarine Sentoku type submarine. The type name,...read more

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The WWII U.S. Navy manual FM 30-50: Recognition Pictorial Manual of Naval Vessels contained the following U.S. ship silhouettes showing the relative size of the various classes of aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers.

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El «Deutschland», alcanzado por la aviación republicana en la Guerra Civil española, sería posteriormente renombrado como «Lützow».

Una de las consecuencias más importantes del tratado de paz impuesto a Alemania en Versalles por los aliados fue la limitación de sus fuerzas armadas, para...read more

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On the morning of December 7th 1941 8 of the 9 Battleships assigned to the US Pacific Fleet were in Pearl Harbor. Seven, the USS California, USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, USS Arizona and USS Nevada were moored on Battleship Row. The USS Pennsylvania was in the...read more

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...The Carriers of the Yorktown Class hold a spot in United States Naval History nearly unequaled by any other class of ships, especially a class that numbered only three ships. Designed and built in the mid 1930s they were the final class of pre-war carriers commissioned by the navy. The...read more

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... The Battle Force of the Pacific Fleet in 1941 included 9 battleships of which 8 were at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7th. In the event of war the US War Plan, “Orange” called for the Pacific Fleet led by the Battle Force to cross the Pacific, fight a climactic Mahanian battle...read more

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USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier In WW2: The Fighting Lady - 1945 (Military Film - S88TV1)

Vosper MTB: las torpederas de la Royal Navy

Battaglia navale a bordo di una corazzata italiana (1941)

Tirpitz: The Battle for Hitler's Supership

The Largest Submarine in World War II (National Geographic)

U.S. Navy Ship Silhouettes

Hitler cambia el nombre de un buque porque «Alemania no puede ser hundida»

Pearl Harbor, the Missing Carriers: USS Enterprise, USS Lexington and USS Saratoga

The Thin Gray Line: The USS Yorktown, USS Enterprise and USS Hornet, the Carriers that Held the Japanese at Bay in 1942

Battleship Row: The Story of the Battleships of Pearl Harbor

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