widow of the late Captain Halsey Powell (USNA 1904); and commissioned on 25 October 1943, our destroyer still had enough time left in World War II to earn seven battle stars in the Pacific from the Marshall Islands to Okinawa– includingsinking a Japanese submarine. ...
I had two former Commanding Officers who had a huge impact in my Navy speak with prerecorded remarks. Retired Medical Corps Rear Admiral David Lane who was my commanding officer at Naval Hospital Camp LeJeune during one of the darkest points of my life. He was there for they then and in ...
At Joseph Sherfy’s farm, scene of some of the heaviest fighting on the second day, his barn“which had been used as a field hospital, was left a burnt ruin, with “crisped and blackened limbs, heads and other portions of bodies” clearly visible.”[12]When the rains came, the wounde...
Naval Hospital (Laurent), Okinawa, Japan, and the U.S. Naval Medical Center (Schallhorn, Tanzer), San Diego, California, USA Accepted 22 November 2005, Available online 28 June 2006 Purpose To quantify the force required to dislodge a laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) corneal flap in ...
Navy Deploys First High-Tech Surveillance Aircraft to Okinawa The HMS Bulwark,the British Royal Navy's most modern and flexible warship,sailed last month from HM Naval Base Devonport (Plymouth,England) for almost seven months of high-tempo operations.This is the ship's first operational deployment...
an American officer ordered workers at gunpoint to retrieve the broken pipe from the seabed; one man developed blisters from head to toe, hospitalizing him for three months. After the loading work had been completed, the two ships sailed south, where, overlooked by an Allied submarine, they ...
US Troops committed a number of rapes during the battle of Okinawa, and the subsequent occupation of Japan. There were 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture alone.1 American Occupation authorities imposed wide-ranging censorship on the Japanese media...