Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) loading Douglas SBD Dauntless scout bombers from a barge, circa 1944. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph. Catalog#: NH 78142. A body of water located northeast of New Guinea. It was the scene of an Allied naval victory during World War II. On 28 February 1943, inContinue reading “USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) 1944–1945”
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HMAS Duchess was a Daring-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy as HMS Duchess from 1952 to 1964, and in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1964 to 1980. She was laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1952. Initially assigned to the Home Fleet, DuchessContinue reading
USS Ranger
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Submarine Kolpino at JSC Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. The new Project 636.3 a.k.a. Improved Kilo-class subs have been dubbed “black holes” by some NATO experts due to how silent-running they are and how they can suddenly disappear from tracking.
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The “four sisters” of Italian heavy cruisers moored at Naples, circa 1938.
Left to right: GORIZIA, POLA, ZARA, and FIUME. One of the Italian Navy’s training ships, AMERIGO VESPUCCI or CRISTOFORO COLOMBO, appears in the distance off to the right. from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/3jAnbzV via IFTTT
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