In the harbors across the country were the famed mothballed "battlewagons" of World War II, the Missouri, the New Jersey, the North Carolina, and the Iowa, all open for public inspection. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sarah Palin reads Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, because the capsule summaries of Baen Books yield the same insights as foreign policy briefs from the Heritage Foundation, but with more talking battlewagons. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You know, those New Mexico and California class battlewagons could dish out a world of hurt with twelve fourteen inchers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seemed like you could just reach up and catch one, plus the battlewagons Allied ships that were sitting offshore were throwing up star shells. ❋ Patrick K. O’Donnell (2002)
A major offensive involving 300 Sudanese government battlewagons intended to clear space for Chinese oil exploration in Darfur's far north has begun, according to rebel commanders who have come under attack. ❋ Unknown (2008)
What to make of the battlewagons spotted by theDarter and theDace ? ❋ Evan Thomas (2006)
Salvaged from the wreckage of Pearl Harbor and equipped with modern radar and fire control, the old battlewagons would gain sweet revenge. ❋ Evan Thomas (2006)
It bothered him when the rate of fire from the battlewagons started tailing off. ❋ Bill Sloan (2005)
Barbaric though it was, there had been something direct and vigorous about twentieth-century combat—especially when brave men had hurled themselves and their fragile aircraft against the flying battlewagons of the Khanate, or fought laser cannons and electromagnetic shields with rifles and artillery— ❋ W.R. THOMPSON (2000)
Residents said Mogadishu was tense but relatively quiet with swarms of militiamen, chewing the stimulant qat, on the streets aboard new "technical" battlewagons, though little shooting could be heard. ❋ Unknown (1995)
After nearly two hours of almost non-stop gunfire, units of the police's feared Internal Stability Unit charged down the street in battlewagons, guns blazing. ❋ Unknown (1994)
Units of the police's feared Internal Stability Unit (ISU) joined in, tearing along the main Kumalo Street in battlewagons with guns blazing. ❋ Unknown (1994)
The confrontation ended when three SADF battlewagons laden with troops in combat fatigues raced into the township. ❋ Unknown (1994)
The battlewagons were close inshore, delivering VT proximity rounds from their secondary batteries. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)
One small ship with minuscule guns had driven the battlewagons into disarray, giving the baby flattops a few minutes of respite. ❋ Michener, James (1982)
Admiral Nishimura would exit the strait with only seven ships: two major battlewagons, a cruiser and four destroyers. ❋ Michener, James (1982)
