Acting US Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly named a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier in honour of World War II hero US Navy Ship’s Cook 3rd Class ..
Tag: World War II
One of the Casemate Illustrated series, this is excellent, easy to read history. Replete with first-rate illustrations, this book makes history come alive. As is ..
The Polish publishing house Kagero Publishing is responsible for this fine review of the Third Reich’s very important breakthrough submarines, the Type XXI U-Boot. ..
The keel of the future USS John Basilone, a US Navy guided missile destroyer, was laid at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works’ (BIW) shipyard on Friday, January 10. ..
Acting US Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly has confirmed that the US Navy’s two newest Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines will be named USS ..
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has held a keel authentication and laying ceremony for the future USS Jack H. Lucas, a US Navy ..
It is no wonder that modern navies have trouble recruiting submarine crews. If any potential recruit submariner were to read this account of relentless hunting of Nazi ..
At 6.18am on 13 December, 1939, cruisers HMS Ajax, Exeter and Achilles (the last of which was from the New Zealand Division) took on German armoured cruiser KMS Admiral ..
Over the past several years, the research vessel Petrel team, and its unique technology, has been dedicated to finding and documenting historic shipwrecks with a focus on ..
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