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The Final Showdown
Only one event remains on the America’s Cup World Series circuit, and the teams are headed to Japan for one final battle before the cup.
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Canadian anti-submarine drill Cutlass Fury concludes
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U.S. Navy Conducts Drill Close to North Korea
On Monday, the destroyer USS Spruance joined South Korean forces in the Sea of Japan for a joint naval exercise, the closest ever to North KoreanJohn Currin posted
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PACIFIC OCEAN (March 10, 2016) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean. Lassen is currently underway in support of Operation Martillo, a joint operation with the U.S. Coast Guard and partner nations within the 4th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Huey D. Younger Jr./Not Released)
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USS Lake Champlain (CV / CVA / CVS-39) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed During or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
Commissioned on 3 June 1945, did not participate on Lake Champlain in World War II, but did serve as a transport, Bringing troops home from Europe as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s, and redesignated as an attack carrier (CVA). She Participated in the Korean War but spent the rest of her career in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. In the late 1950s, she was redesignated as an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was the prime recovery ship for the first manned Mercury and for the third manned Gemini (Gemini V) space missions.
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