Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...
National Security Journal on MSN4d
USS Illinois: The Forgotten Iowa-Class Battleship The Navy Never FinishedThe USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...
The National Interest on MSN6d
This World War II Battleship Fights Its Greatest Enemy YetThe USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...
Air Force Times on MSN3d
This pilot sought to avenge his brother’s death over the South PacificKeen to avenge his brother’s death, Van Voorhis adamantly requested a combat assignment in the South Pacific. Early in 1943 ...
In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked ... but it was far from the last. During World War II, the company that has grown to become an entertainment, theme-park and merchandising ...
Ensign Jack Carl Fuller received the Navy Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, two Bronze Stars and World War II Victory Medal.
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