During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in ...
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Yamato’s Legacy: The Pinnacle of Battleship Design and the Dawn of a New Naval Age
On April 7, 1945, the Japanese Yamato, the pinnacle of naval technology and the biggest and best-equipped battleship ever constructed, embarked on a final doomed voyage. Yamato set out as part ...
Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- List of charts -- Abbreviations, ship symbols, aircraft designations, and operation code names -- Ch. 1. The road to flag rank -- Ch. 2.
Today in U.S. 1856 - Cdr. Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians. 1917 - USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink ...
The Navy on Saturday announced another destroyer has been sent to the southern border to aid in the ongoing maritime efforts to curb illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Navy officials said the USS ...
Most people, however, do not know that McCain’s grandfather was also an admiral. That would include me. Indeed, when I was asked to review A Leader Born, I thought it was a biography of the senator’s ...
Summary and Key Points: Introduced in the 1970s, the Spruance-class destroyers were designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and named after WWII Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance. Some experts ...
The Japs fought desperately this week in their own front yard. In one of the greatest air battles of the Pacific war, hundreds of Jap planes took to the air, flew against a U.S. task force which was ...
June 1 (UPI) --Eighty years ago this week, one of the greatest naval battles in American history was fought and won over two tiny islands in the Western Pacific called Midway for their geographic ...
The USS Spruance leaves Naval Base San Diego on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy) The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance left Naval Base San Diego Saturday on a border security mission in ...
FEB. 19, 1945 -- UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, (Monday) -- (AP) -- Iwo Jima's coastal defense were further shattered Sunday in the third straight day of bombardment of the ...
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