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Battleship (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score soundtrack to the 2012 film Battleship, directed by Peter Berg. The film score is composed by Steve Jablonsky with contributions from rock guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine .
Battleship is a 2012 American military science fiction action film based on the board game of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Berg from a script by brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber and stars Taylor Kitsch , Alexander Skarsgård , Brooklyn Decker , Rihanna in her feature film debut, Tadanobu Asano , Hamish Linklater and Liam Neeson .
USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship.Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
Battle of Mers-el-Kébir: World War II: Royal Navy: Vichy French Navy: British victory 9 July 1940: Battle of Calabria: World War II: Royal Navy: Regia Marina: Indecisive 23–25 September 1940: Battle of Dakar: World War II: Royal Navy: Vichy French Navy: Vichy French victory 27 November 1940: Battle of Cape Spartivento: World War II: Royal ...
The final American pre-dreadnought class, the Mississippi-class, were an experiment in increasing numbers with slower ships of limited range. The Navy soon rejected the concept and within 6 years of commissioning, sold these to Greece in 1914 to pay for a new super-dreadnought USS Idaho (BB-42) .
The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941 between the German battleship Bismarck and naval and air elements of the British Royal Navy.
The battle also exhibited Japan's willingness to make extreme sacrifices in kamikaze attacks aimed at delaying the Allied advance upon the Japanese home islands. Furthermore, the engagement was also paramount by enabling U.S. forces to prevent Japan from holding a significant advantage over the Allies at Okinawa.
On 15 November 1944, the 1st Battleship Division was disbanded, and Yamato became the flagship of the Second Fleet. [22] On 21 November, while transiting the East China Sea in a withdrawal to Kure Naval Base, [45] Yamato ' s battle group was attacked by the submarine USS Sealion. The battleship KongÅ and destroyer Urakaze were lost. [46]