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
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.