Boston Navy Yard, 1st April 1960. Ships in this photo: Pier 11 – USS Wasp (CVS-18) Essex-class aircraft carrier Dry Dock 5 – ARD-16 floating dry dock Dry Dock 5 – YFND-23 dry dock companion craft, in ARD-16 Pier 10 – empty ...
In 1919, a small group of women served with the United States Navy as nurses, answering to male officers. 23 years later, in early Aug 1942, female officer Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee was commissioned into the US Navy amidst World War II to head up the Women Accepted ...
Lieutenant W. White, U.S. Navy, the Assistant Damage Control Officer, who was ashore at the beginning of the action, but returned aboard and performed prodigies in the attempt to extinguish the fire. His untiring and intelligent efforts were an essential aid to getting the fire finally under ...
• An expeditionary detachment of US Navy ships led by the universal amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge days ago was in the Baltic Sea. It was 30 km from the site of the alleged sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline and 50 km from the threads of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline ...
1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted...
Also used aboard Amphibious Assault Command Ships - TT-71 in use aboard USS Estes in WW2 Manual In this video of the dedication of the Navy's Jim Creek transmitter site you can see the TT-71 screen/base briefly at 0:33 and a message printing on it starting at 0:40 AN/UGR-1 AN/...
“What the auxiliary cruiser is to a Navy, the Disston Tractor Tank is to an Army or Police Force. Both are useful and useable in peace and war. They both pay their way. The Disston Tractor Tank is the latest in army and police equipment. It is, in fact, a combination war and ...
and then all personnel returned to their assigned billets for some much-needed rest. The next morning, American currency was exchanged into British Pounds at the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes canteen –ed), which proved to be a slow process due to the sheer volume of personnel...
It was under such circumstance that Houthis started attacking ships to Israel demanding Israel stop its genocide of Palestinians. In supporting the US fleet by sending a ship from Sri Lanka’s navy the island has supportedthe continuation of Israeli genocide. Now the question is whether a...
Spurred on by his family, 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter in March calling for the Navy to free him, and soon after, US President Trump had him released from prison to house arrest. In July, 2019, he was acquitted of all charges. Gallagher was one of three military ...