USS Ancon (ACG-4) was an ocean liner acquired by the United States Navy during World War II and converted to a combined headquarters and communications command ship. Ancon was launched on 24 September 1938 at Quincy, Massachusetts by the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River shipyard, sponsored...
USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. Originally a German ocean liner named Konig Wilhelm II, she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed USS Madawaska (ID 3011) in 1917 before ...
However, in December 1941 the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy was attacked at Pearl Harbor of the nation came together as it never had before. On the morning of December 7th 1941 there were over ninety ships of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. While over twenty percent of these ...
USS CANBERRA (CA70/CAG-2) Bryan Humphrey Secretary Treasurer USS CANBERRA Reunion Association Ocean Pines, Maryland USS CANBERRA (CA70/CAG-2) was the first United States Navy ship ever to be named for an ally's fallen vessel. On 9 August 1942, HMAS CANBERRA was lost in combat while on ...
Wreckage from the USS Lexington – a US aircraft carrier sunk by the Japanese during World War II – has been discovered 500 miles off the Australian coast by a team of explorers led by billionaire Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder announced on Monday