US Navy submariners tell who act as doctors aboard submarines given that physicians are not generally aboard
Japanese military scientists traveled to the island with a cargo of plague-carrying fleas to distribute around its runway—but their ship was sunk by US submarines before it reached its destination. The second plan involved arming the paper balloons produced by children on Okunoshima and elsewhere ...
Details of AUKUS nuclear sub deal revealed The Australian Royal Navy is buying up to five attack submarines from the US and possibly building three more with the UK’s help. The deal is estimated to cost 360 billion Australian dollars ($240bn). With that investment, Australia could have 40...
BUNK BAGS-Unique to submarines, these all purpose nylon bags were priceless. THE SUB THAT SANK A TRAIN-The only ground operation against the Japanese motherland during WWII was carried out by crewmembers from the USS Barb including one who would later be COB on the Cusk. ...
Oriskany was laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Facility at Bremerton, WA. The Navy announced on 5 April 2004, that it would transfer the former aircraft carrier to the State of Florida for use as an artificial reef. Towed to Pensacola, Oriskany was sunk with explosive charges on May 17...
In other submarine missteps– departing from 77th SECNAV Kenneth J. Braithwaite returned totraditional “fish” names for fleet submarines(or hunter killers in modern parlance), something the Navy did from 1931 through 1973. Hence, we will soon haveUSS Barb (SSN 804), Tang (SSN 805), Wahoo...
Though he never toted a gun, Tec 5 Arthur R. Mann would see action in the Bay of Naples, Italy, where some Hospital Ships were sunk by the enemy. He went through the scare of preying submarines but also had the satisfaction of seeing quite a few of them eliminated. He was also a...
some American antiaircraft gun crews shot at his plane, thinking it was Japanese. He landed anyway, shut down the engines, and reported to the ready room for debriefing. His seaplane was loaded with depth charges and he was dispatched on another mission to hunt...
Polish NSMs, Kashual added, could prove to be "a big part" of NATO's answer to that question. Poland's government has said as much. "Due to the reinforcement of the coastal missile units, manned and unmanned reconnaissance platforms, modern mine warfare and submarin...
The discovery of the presumably unsinkableTitanic,which hit an iceberg and sunk to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, wasn’t just part of a scientific search effort for the lost ship. It was a secret U.S. military operation to reclaim wayward nuclear submarines that located the ship...