Three classic The History Guy episodes about some of the biggest, baddest warships ever to sail under the American flag.
00:00 Battleship USS Tennessee and the Second World War
14:40 The WWII Naval Bombardment of Japan
29:37 Last of the Battleships: The Iowa Class
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.