The USS Independence (CVL-22) was a United States Navy light aircraft carrier served during the Second World War. She took part in the attacks on Rabaul, Tarawa, Luzon, Okinawa, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and others strike duties. When war finished, Independence was used as a target during the...read more

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A US submarine that sank during World War II has been discovered on the bottom of the ocean near Matua Island in Russia’s Far Eastern Kuril archipelago by a joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) and Defense Ministry....read more

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Struggling to stay afloat financially, the USS Kidd has embarked on a fundraising effort selling what officials describe as “unique war bonds” to the public, Olivia Mcclure,...read more

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 Teniente) June 01, 2016
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El protagonista de la entrada de esta semana es un barco, un acorazado de bolsillo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y si hablamos de este conflicto y de acorazado de bolsillo, su nombre nos viene rápidamente a la mente, el acorazado Bismarck.

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In service for less than two years during World War lI, the USS Batfish (SS-310) and those who sailed in her won 9 battle stars, sank 15 enemy ships, damaged numerous others, and even rescued three, wet but happy, Army pilots whose B-25 bomber had crashed into the Sea of Japan. In that respect...read more

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USS Iowa (BB-61) is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. During her long life she was commissioned for 227 months. Today, the IOWA is preserved as a museum near Los Angeles at San...read more

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The USS Oklahoma was our first battleship equipped with 14-inch rifle main battery. She was the second unit of the Nevada Class, built at Camden, New Jersey in 1914-16. Commissioned in May 1916. The Oklahoma was 583 feet long with a maximum beam of 95 feet. She...read more

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HMS Sheffield was one of the first British ships to be fitted with a surface-search radar, which she put to good use in shadowing the German battleship Bismarck.

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U-166 was one of two U-Boat wrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. The boat was sunk early on in World War II, sinking only four ships before being destroyed by a U.S. Naval vessel next to its final target, the Robert E. Lee, in 1942. German submarine U-166 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi...read more

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Tirpitz was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) during World War II. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven in...read more

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