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In just four minutes during the Battle of Cape Matapan, the Royal Navy decisively shattered the Italian Regia Marina, sinking multiple ships and killing over 3,000 Italian sailors, while suffering ...
These Navy divers, also known as Frogmen, went airborne during a dangerous ... The SEAL missions continued in the years that followed World War II. The UDTs put their demolition expertise to ...
Navy frogmen, lead by Lieutenant Crabb, must stop the Italians from attaching mines to British ships during World War II. War epic. Mild language/violence. (1958)(107 mins) ...
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...
Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on Memorial Day.
Julia Parsons, the United States Navy codebreaker whose top-secret unit of women helped to defeat the Germans and win World War II by decoding Nazi messages, has died at 104. Required to keep her ...
the first helicopters to take part in combat operations did so in World War II. The Sikorsky YR-4B "hoverfly" was the first craft to have the honor of flying combat missions for the U.S. military.
And even after he was officially demobbed in 1947, he continued diving for the military in various capacities, including investigating sunken submarines. For decades following the frogman's ...
Eighty-one years after being reported missing in action, a second lieutenant shot down in the Pacific during World War II is finally coming home — all thanks to a University of Illinois professor who ...
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement ...
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code-breaker during World War II who kept a military secret about her assignment for decades, including from her Army husband, Don, died April 18 A longtime resident of ...
By Michael S. Rosenwald Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U ...