[This site designed with MS Internet Explorer for resolutions of 800x600 and greater and at least 16bit color depth.] USS Missouri (BB 63) - August 1944 About This Site This site is devoted to the United States battleships and battlecruisers used during America's involvement in World War II (December 1941 - August 1945) in an active combat role (earning at least one battle star.) With a few exceptions, the main emphasis of this site is to document the US battleships in WWII only, so little, if any, information will be provided for times outside this. While The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships was one of the sources used for writing the ships' histories, the entries were not copied word for word since information from others publications was also used. Some histories are noticeably brief compared to others and this is mainly a result of the lack of publications devoted to those ships. USS Utah (BB 31) and USS Wyoming (BB 32) were both built as battleships but neither were used as such in WWII so they are excluded at this site. USS Utah was converted to AG16 as a target/training ship in the early 1930's and at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor was mostly disarmed and much of the deck planked over. She was mistaken for a carrier in the attack and was hit by two torpedoes which resulted in her capsizing and sinking with some of her crew still inside. (The partially sunk hull still remains there today.) USS Wyoming was also converted to a training ship (AG17) and was used as such until her decommissioning in 1947. Updates 5 Apr 03 - It's been literally almost three years since I touched this site, in that time it had decayed with a lot of dead links. This was a result of the original need to split the site across two webhosts due to the quantity of photos [now at 500+] and the fact that they are free webhosts, and so some images were deleted due to oversize limits. The site is now stored with one webhost so all images should load [e-mail me if dead links still exist].

	Some general information on US battleships and battlecruisers
	Features data and pictures/illustrations of the weapons used on US battleships - ranging from the 1.1" to the 16" gun.
	Discusses the common camouflage measures used by USN battleships in WWII.
	Documents the sources used in making this site.
	Sign or view the US World War II Battleships and Battlecruisers guestbook. [View old guestbook (before Feb 2001)]
	Some links to interesting websites and webrings.