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“Veterans are sometimes forgotten,” state Sen. Tracy Pennycuick, R-24th Dist., herself an Army combat veteran, told the ...
The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy ...
The USS Nautilus started as blueprints in July 1951 when Congress approved the world’s first nuclear submarine. President ...
Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an ...
Construction has commenced on a memorial dedicated to the United States Navy's "silent service" at Voice of America Park.
The U.S. Navy dropped nuclear bombs on its own ships loaded with rats and other animals to see the effect of nuclear weapons ...
The Charleston area is seeing a defense-related shipbuilding renaissance led by companies like Newport News Shipbuilding, HII ...
The Drum completed 13 official war patrols in the Pacific and earned 12 battle stars for her service. Today, she is the ...
Decades-long anticipated work to build the final resting place of nuclear attack submarine USS Cincinnati has begun in Butler County’s West Chester Twp. as fund-raising continues for the unique $9.5 ...
One of the most important incidents of World War I took place on May 7, 1915, when the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, ...
A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which ...
On a cool spring morning, 35 local heroes from the World War II, Korean, Vietnam and Cold War eras set off to the nation’s ...