U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to Bravo Battery, 1-3 Field Artillery, 17th Field Artillery Battalion stage their M142 HIMARS at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, on Oct. 31, 2023. (Cera L. Rodney/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced a new aid package for Ukraine on Monday that includes more weapons and cold weather gear as the country’sContinue reading “Cold weather gear, more rockets and bombs included in new $100M aid package to Ukraine By DOUG G. WARE STARS AND STRIPES • November 20, 2023”
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On 29 April 1814, during the War of 1812, United States Sloop-of-War Peacock captured the British Brig Epervier off Florida.This oil on canvas by Tomiro depicts the battle. NHHC image NH 83139-KN
Early in the morning of 28th April 1814, HMS Epervier and her convoy were sighted by the USS Peacock. The USS Peacock, although brig-rigged like HMS Epervier, was significantly bigger and was more powerfully armed. USS Peacock was half as large again as HMS Epervier and mounted a total of 22 guns as opposed toContinue reading “On 29 April 1814, during the War of 1812, United States Sloop-of-War Peacock captured the British Brig Epervier off Florida.This oil on canvas by Tomiro depicts the battle. NHHC image NH 83139-KN”
USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy,
USS Eversole (DD-789) underway in 1956. USS Eversole (DD-789) underway in 1956. TCG Gayret as a museum ship (TCG Gayret Museum) in Izmit, Turkey. USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Eversole (1915–1942), a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway. She later served in the Turkish navy from 1973 to 1995 as TCG Gayret (D-352) and is now a shipContinue reading “USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy,”
SALUTE, ANSWERED – The first salute to the flag of the nascent United States was received in Oranje Bay by the Colonial Navy Brig-of-War Andrew Dorea (14 guns), an 11-gun return fired from Dutch-held Fort Oranje on the island of Sint Eustatius (Statia) in the Netherlands Antilles on 16 November 1776.
Governor-Commander Johannes de Graaff, who had only assumed his post in September and opened his colony to American ships, would welcome Dorea’s skipper, Captain Isaiah Robinson, who had arrived at the Dutch Caribbean island under orders of the Secret Committee to obtain munitions and military supplies. Robinson would leave behind a Philadelphia-printed copy of the Declaration ofContinue reading “SALUTE, ANSWERED – The first salute to the flag of the nascent United States was received in Oranje Bay by the Colonial Navy Brig-of-War Andrew Dorea (14 guns), an 11-gun return fired from Dutch-held Fort Oranje on the island of Sint Eustatius (Statia) in the Netherlands Antilles on 16 November 1776.”
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