Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
National Security Journal on MSN2dOpinion
The U.S. Navy Is Way Too SmallThe US Navy currently has 238 active combat warships, 50 of which are in reserve. The sea service is building another 50 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years LaterAfter his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
An unexploded bomb found in a river in North Yorkshire has been destroyed by specialist naval divers. North Yorkshire Police ...
Reading Eagle on MSN1d
99-year-old Berks WWII veteran recalls caring for wounded soldiersWAVES recruitment figures proved those suppositions wrong. In 1945, the WAVES had 73,816 enlisted women, 8,745 officers and ...
Ingalls Shipbuilding serves as an all too familiar site for World War II Navy veteran Alfred Lewis. “I worked in the engine ...
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