America Started Digging a Bigger Panama Canal for Battleships It Never Built. The Ships Were Canceled in 1943 — but the Ditches Became Part of the Canal Supertankers Use Today
America's last and largest battleships were ordered, numbered, and never built. The Montana-class would have out-gunned the Iowa, matched Japan's Yamato, and been too wide to fit through the Panama…
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