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All About The SS United States: Why Was This Ship So Important?
As the ocean liner SS United States is being prepared for its final voyage, from Alabama to a site off Florida, we look back ...
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Take a Warbird Ride on a World War II Bomber and Troop Transport
Rosie's Reply and the venerable World War II troop carrier C-47, Hairless Joe. What better way to experience history in ...
NOAA camera dives down to sunken U.S. World War II ship — and finds a car inside
A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
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Communist China Envisioning Supersized Landing Ships To Put Troops and Vehicles Ashore in Any Invasion of Free China
These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II movies, disgorging troops on beaches from ... “would require a large number of ships to transport personnel and equipment across the ...
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‘The nets were swaying from side to side. If you missed your jump, you were into the sea and gone.’
Morton Waitzman wasn’t even off his D-Day troop transport ship when he witnessed ... Hear more voices from World War II.
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Westmoreland natives killed in Christmas Eve 1944 U-boat attack have lives preserved digitally
Jeff Himler Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 5:01 a.m. | Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 5:01 a.m. Learn more • Visit leopoldville.org for more information about the 1944 sinking of the SS Leopoldville. • Stories ...
Brazilian navy confirms location of World War II shipwreck
After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop ... ship, built in ...
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Nonprofit honors Greensburg native, more than 500 others lost in German attack on WWII troop ship
That ambition came to an unexpected and violent end nearly 80 years ago today, when a German torpedo bomber plane attacked and destroyed the World War II troop ship carrying Paulson and 579 other ...