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You Should Know the Exact Day Navy Battleships Became Obsolete
In 1921, U.S. Army General Billy Mitchell led Project B, a revolutionary military exercise demonstrating the power of aerial ...
Austin Daily Herald11h
Codebreakers, fighter pilots and artists: A new photography book features local centenarians
By Alex V. Cipolle There is a countess over 100 years old who lives next to the Notre Dame in Paris. Local photographer Valérie Jardin took her photo last week. “Pretty amazing,” Jardin says. Email ...
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Last survivor of German battelship Graf Spee dies in Montevideo
Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...
DOC NYC documentary film festival showcases real life on screen
America's largest nonfiction film festival, featuring more than 200 features and shorts, returns to New York City theaters ...
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Salvage of Graf Spee range finder
This Friday, weather permitting the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled off the coast of Uruguay at the beginning of World War II, will be ... as "a state of the art" optical piece ...
RIPR: The Public's Radio5d
This Veterans Day, let’s honor athletes who were heroes off the field
Slug a walk-off grand slam in the World Series, and you’re a hero. Come back from ACL or rotator cuff surgery, and you’re courageous. Bury long jump shots in the Final Four, and you’re a gunner. The ...
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12 Best War Movies on HBO Max (November 2024)
The Werner Herzog directorial is a biographical war drama based on the events in the life of German-born United States Navy aviator Dieter Dengler ... Forest from September to December 1944 (World War ...
Washington Examiner3d
US Navy commissions destroyer named after World War II hero
The United States Navy commissioned a new destroyer over the weekend in New York City, and it was named after legendary World War II hero U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone. Appropriately ...
Washington Times3d
Royal Australian Navy finds U.S. destroyer from World War II at bottom of Indian Ocean
The Royal Australian Navy announced this week it has discovered the wreckage of the World War II destroyer USS Edsall in the Indian Ocean. Australian navy officials informed the U.S. Naval History ...
USA Today3d
Wreck of Navy destroyer USS Edsall known as 'the dancing mouse' found 80 years after sinking
More than 80 years after it was sunk by Japanese forces during World War II, the U.S. Navy said Monday that the wreckage of the destroyer USS Edsall has been found at the bottom of Indian Ocean.
War on the Rocks3d
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
There is no shortage of problems confronting the U.S. Navy, as salvo after salvo of embarrassing stories attest. The range of problems is spectacularly depressing, addressing almost every facet of the ...