South Dakota is the seventh Virginia-class Block III submarine. Block III submarines feature a redesigned bow with enhanced payload capabilities, replacing 12 individual vertical launch tubes with two large-diameter Virginia Payload Tubes, each capable of launching six Tomahawk cruise missiles. This, am...
South Dakota artist Mickey Harris created and painted the bike which commemorates the USS South Dakota Battleship and the Submarine South Dakota. Watch for this special bike to lead the Hot Harley Nights parade Saturday night along with Commanding Officer Craig Litty and Chief of Boat Adam Goul...
The Wickes class was the oldest class of the so-called "flushdeckers" to see service in World War II. Its direct predecessor was Destroyer 1916, the Caldwell class, from which no ship survived to participate in the Pacific War. The Wickes class resulted
I have a 1944 metal model of IOWA used in submarine periscope training on my bookcase. Picture of original launch and commemorative postal cover is framed on my wall. IOWA and my shipmates are always in my thoughts. Clifford Charles Smith Hails from: Brentwood, CA Division: MM Rate/Rank: ...
South Pacific being damaged by a near miss from a bomb on 25 December off Cape Gloucester and was stuck by a Kamikaze on 5 December 1944 in Surigo Strait. She escorted the fast carriers of TF 8 and 58 and later served on anti-submarine and radar picket duty. She decommissioned 1946 ...
USS Stevens (DD-479), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of that name in the United States Navy. This ship was named for both Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, Jr. (1819–1896), and his father, Captain Thomas Holdup Stevens (1795–1841). Steve
Page details technical specifications, development, operational history of the USS Virginia (SSN-774) Nuclear Attack Submarine including pictures.
Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution." That's our "CREED" but it's not who we are We are United States Submarine Sailors! We were, and are, members of the elite fighting force of the United States Navy. ...
Click here The USS Yorktown most famous for her service in the Pacific, but also she saw some "action" in the Atlantic as a target for a Nazi German submarine; Click here Yorktown plane crashes into mast of USS New Orleans, spraying aviation fuel and killing one crewmember; Click here ...