The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

But it's not always size that matters. The Navy uses plenty of other ships that aren't on such a grand scale, but this doesn't make them any less impressive — or important. Some ships are only ...

the West Virginia protected the invasion beaches and took part in the last naval engagement between line-of-battle ships in War World II. After shelling Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...