Critics suggest that prioritizing battlecruisers over battleships might have given the U.S. Navy better tools to combat Japan's forces early in the war, though this remains speculative.
Britain, Germany, and Japan began to build all-big-gun battleships, but supplemented these battleships with battlecruisers. Faster but less heavily armed and armored than their cousins ...
Built during World War II, the Alaska, Guam, and Hawaii were intended to counter threats from German and Japanese battlecruisers. What You Need to Know: Straddling the line between cruiser and ...