Page details technical specifications, development, operational history of the USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine including pictures.
The 361ft-long, 6,087t Los Angeles Class submarine was commissioned on 17 December 1977. Memphis had returned from a two-month deployment overseas, supporting missions in the European Command area of responsibility. The submarine was capable of accommodating a crew of 13 officers and cruising at...
The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 45 submarines on active-duty, this class has more boats than any other nuclear powered submarine ...
There were speculations that the West Coast was next on the target of the Japanese. A day before the Battle of Los Angeles, a Japanese submarine had shelled an oil field near Santa Barbara. Consequently, anti-aircraft installations were put on high alert, and the crews were ordered to be o...
After winning a key primary in California, Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kaliforniya’da önemli bir zafer kazanmasının ardından Los Angeles’taki Ambassador Otel’de vuruldu. Literature I have a Los Angeles class attack submarine on the port...
Navy aircraft carrier fleet, attack submarine fleet, ballistic missile submarine fleet and the entire U.S. Marine Corps. If you prefer to consider non-military expenditures, L.A. County’s contribution funds almost all of the annual expense of the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of...
CHARLESTON, S.C. —The world’s first successful submarine attack occurred in Charleston Harbor, Feb. 17, 1864, when sailors aboard the 25-foot-long Confederate sub, the H. L. Hunley, sank the Union warship Housatonic. Powered by eight men hand-cranking its propeller, the Hunley was a ...
And so it was the very next night that witnessed what has become known as the Battle of Los Angeles, or the Great Los Angeles Air Raid. U.S. Naval Intelligence an-nounced on Feb. 24, 1942, that an attack was imminent within the next 10 hours. Flares and blinking lights were reported...
The "Battle of Los Angeles," or the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, occurred during the early morning hours of February 25, 1942. In reality, the Battle of Los Angeles was preceded by ten Japanese submarine attacks on American ships off the California coast and one attack on an oil field. ...
Los Angeles Times In the frantic weeks that followed the Pearl Harbor attack, many Americans believed that enemy raids on the continental United States were imminent. On December 9, 1941, unsubstantiated reports of approaching aircraft had caused a minor invasion panic in New York City and sent ...