This WW2 Aircraft Carrier Went Beyond the Call of Duty
Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...
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The World War II destroyer escort that fought like a battleship
The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world's two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton. That night ...
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How One Pilot Sunk Two Aircraft Carriers At the Battle of Midway
As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD ...
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Forget Battleships: The U.S. Navy Could Have Built a Fleet of Battlecruisers
The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its ... battlecruisers that could have supported its fast carrier groups. The names of these ships might have ...
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The War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet ... results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese planes that some ...
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Boat on a Tokyo river has possible ties to Japanese fleet in WWII
A boat sitting in a river in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward that looks like any other watercraft has been causing waves online as it may have once been part of the Imperial Japanese Navy. There is a high ...