Each gun took dozens of sailors to fire ... Building just one super battleship – the USS Montana – could have sent a message to the Japanese that the Americans were serious about re-building ...

The documentary, which runs about an hour, was produced and narrated by Great Falls native Craig Wirth, and the showing in Helena included a discussion afterward including Wirth and two members of the ...

A new television documentary about the first and new USS Montana warships – and Big Sky Country’s unique relationship with the US Navy for more than 100 years - will air statewide on Feb. 22 ...

The film focuses on the original USS Montana, a Navy armored cruiser commissioned in 1908 and decommissioned in 1921, and the current Virginia class fast-attack nuclear submarine now part of the ...