[Photo] Captain Arleigh Burke (third from left) with his US Navy Destroyer Squadron 23 captains at 'Cloob Des-Slot', Fleet Recreation Center, Port Purvis, Nggela Sule (Florida Island), Solomon Islands, 24 May 1944 | World War II Database
On August 2 the destroyer USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats while on electronic surveillance patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. The preceding day, patrol boats of the South Vietnamese navy had carried out clandestine raids on the islands of Hon Me and Hon Nieu just off ...
The U.S. destroyer is part of the strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which returned to the waters in what South Korea’s military called an attempt to demonstrate the allies’ “firm will” to counter North’s continued provocations and threats. The ...
“Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don Brown, in my view, did an amazing job of providing a very readable flow of the progression of our Marines advancing through some of the Japanese-held islands during World War II, facing many other factors as well like decisions made in Washington regarding comm...
World War I destroyed the old aristocratic financial orders - and ushered in the era of debt-based economies under central banking coordination. Thus, you are right: Finance caused the crackup. Finance built the new system. Finance was the real war. The bullets and trenches were just the loud...
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Cold War Missile Slinger Gyattentered the Boston Naval Shipyard on 26 September 1955 and was decommissioned on Halloween. The Navy had plans to make her the third operational U.S. warship– and the first destroyer– to carry guided missiles. ...
Armored Destroyer Subjugator Dust Imp User Interface You can now change the icon for each tab in the shared stash The intent of this feature is to allow players the option to visually customize their stash tabs to better reflect its contents Bug Fixes Switching from a weapon to a shield in...
Increased emphasis has been placed recently on both the utilization of small boats and their associated fire power for coastal defense and incipient insurgency actions. Improvements in the fire power of small boats has been dormant since the use of PT boats in World War II. Torpedoes have limited...
"destroyer", "battleship", "big gun", "airplane"; each side having three "headquarters" markers, and each of the markers having, in addition to a predetermined moving ability or disability and a destroying ability, a point value; the objective of the game being to destroy all three of th...