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USS Hobson's executive officer objected that the maneuver would put her on a collision course with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, lost the argument,...
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USS Hobson's executive officer objected that the maneuver would put her on a collision course with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, lost the argument,...
Reactivating USS New Jersey alone was estimated at $247 million in 1982, about $857 million today. The battleships got AN/SPS-49 radars, SLQ-32 electronic warfare...
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone," begins a quote attributed to Douglas MacArthur, and few American generals tested that line harder....
George C. Marshall moved 600,000 U.S. troops in the Meuse-Argonne, then as Army Chief of Staff from 1939 to 1945 built the force Eisenhower...
The three words were the Academy's motto, not his — what he brought to them was the century's most spectacular military life: the first...
Smith later said he hadn't put it quite that colorfully — the press polished the words, and thirteen days at thirty below proved them...
The US Navy Had A Big Idea: In the late 1970s, proposals were made to convert the Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers" with a flight...
Thousands of full-charge rounds wore the rifling out of the Iowas' 16-inch guns, and the Navy replaced barrels after the war. The spares came...
When people think of American aircraft carriers, they usually think about one of the many nuclear-powered carriers that the Navy has built over the...
The four Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece, fought from World War II through Desert Storm, and were reactivated three separate times —...