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Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were completed, the most numerous capital-ship class of the 20th century, and not one was lost to enemy action, though...
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Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were completed, the most numerous capital-ship class of the 20th century, and not one was lost to enemy action, though...
Off Songjin in March 1952, a single North Korean 152 mm gun scored a direct hit on USS Wisconsin, wounding three sailors and nothing...
“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence...
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class boat, was ordered in June 1996 largely to keep the shipyard’s welders employed between the...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the fight in the dog,” President Dwight D....
At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” Winston Churchill said, and...
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the...
“You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided,” Gen. George S. Patton said, and he lived it: raised...