naval history

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/15/2020
  

  The World’s Most Important Body of Water

  by Daniel Yergin

  The author of a book on the dispute over control of the South China sea examines four critical decisionmakers whose actions shaped the present conflict. 

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• SOURCE: Popular Mechanics
  12/4/2020
  

  Fishermen Catch WWII Mine, Extremely Satisfying Explosion Ensues

  The Royal Navy identified the mine as a German device dating to the World War II era and detonated it underwater.

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• SOURCE: Yakima (WA) Herald
  9/10/2020
  

  Yakima Sailor's Remains Identified 78 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

  Advances in DNA testing made it possible to identify the remains of Patrick Chess, unnacounted for and presumed dead in the attack on the USS Oklahoma. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  The Battle of The Atlantic has Lessons for Fighting COVID-19

  by Marc Wortman

  Pleasure-seekers and shoreline business owners on the east coast of the United States rejected voluntary calls to dim their lights in 1942. German U-Boat crews devastated shipping and commerce until compulsory blackouts were enforced. 

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  1/19/20
  

  A black mess attendant was a Pearl Harbor hero. Now an aircraft carrier will have his name.

  Even without gun training, Doris Miller jumped behind one of the unmanned Brownings, swung it skyward and fired until his belt was empty and crew members were ordered to abandon ship.

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• 12/29/19
  

  Barbarous Hun: The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Rise of Propaganda

  by Albinko Hasic

  British and U.S. war advocates quickly turned the tragedy into pro-war propaganda and created everything from postcards, to medals, to posters.

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• 11/12/19
  

  The Battle of Midway Movie is Mostly Terrific

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Despite its drawbacks, Midway is a rip-roaring military saga and a testament to the men who won it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/10/19
  

  Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa

  Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.    

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 8, 2019
  

  New ‘Midway’ movie aims for reality, but the discovery of wreckage brings the battle home

  by Michael E. Ruane

  Two sunken Japanese aircraft carriers were found weeks before the movie about the World War II battle opens

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/18/19
  

  What We Can All Learn About Character From Great Admirals in History

  by James Stavridis

  Sailors often have a unique opportunity to chart a course toward a good character.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/30/19
  

  The H.M.S. Terror Sank in the 1840s. See What It Looks Like Now.

  An underwater exploration this month revealed the wreckage, much of it well preserved by cold water, lack of light and layers of silt, that likely contains documents with information about an ill-fated expedition that set sail in 1845.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  U.S. Ship Sunk in World War II by German Sub Is Found Off Maine Coast

  The U.S.S. Eagle PE-56, which lost 49 of 62 crew members, was located by a civilian dive team.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  How Southern Mississippi Professor Leila Hamdan Led Her Team to Explore 2 Historic Shipwrecks

  The University of Southern Mississippi and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) worked together to discover and characterize two unexplored shipwrecks in the Gulf and study marine life on and around the wrecks.

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• 5/12/19
  

  When War Was a Family Affair

  by Walter R. Borneman

  The stories of family members who served on the same Naval ships in World War II. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/19
  

  Lost World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Found After an Epic Search

  Sunk in 1942, a team of wreck hunters set out to find the U.S.S. Wasp. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/13/19
  

  The wreck of a WWII US Navy aircraft carrier, lost for 76 years, has been found in the South Pacific

  It had lain dormant on the murky ocean floor -- some three miles beneath the surface -- for more than 76 years.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- U.S. Navy
  1-13-15
  

  New Director Takes the Helm of Naval History

  Rear Adm. (Ret.) Samuel Cox recently assumed responsibilities as the new director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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• 11-11-13
  

  The Seven Greatest Naval Blunders in History

  by Bill Fawcett

  Or, how stupid decisions combined with general incompetence tends to lead to failure.

• SOURCE: AP
  3-2-13
  

  Ceremony for Monitor sailors stirs familial ties

  A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad's turret is bringing together people from across the country with distant but powerful ties to those who died aboard.The ceremony Friday at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington will include Monitor kin who believe the two sailors — whose remains were discovered in 2002 — are their ancestors, despite DNA testing that has failed to make a conclusive link. But the families stress that the interment pays homage to all 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down, and nearly 100 people from Maine to California are expected to attend."When I learned they were going to do a memorial and have the burial at Arlington, it was like, 'I can't miss that,'" said Andy Bryan of Holden, Maine, who will travel with his daughter Margaret to the capital. He said DNA testing found a 50 percent likelihood that Monitor crewman William Bryan, his great-great-great-uncle, was one of the two found in the summer of 2002, when the 150-ton turret was raised from the ocean floor off Cape Hatteras, N.C."If it's not William Bryan, I'm OK with that," Bryan said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I feel like I should be there."...