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Not our idea, of fun and good cheers, but doing our job to ensure many New Years. These lines, written by Lt. (j.g.) Bruce Felt on New Year’s Day 1961 aboard the USS Growler, reflect the serious life ...
Sixteen aircraft dropped 124,000 pounds of ordnance in less than two minutes during a Feb. 1 airstrike in Somalia, a defense ...
Each year, the Knights of Columbus council in Newport News honors the 99, with each of their names and ranks read out loud — ...
The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...
Armed with nuclear missiles, the USS Growler acted as a deterrent to keep other nations from using their nuclear weapons ...
The Nevada had a distinguished service record and saw action at Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Iwo Jima and Okinawa during World War II.
Researchers have located the wrecks of two long-lost military vehicles on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego: an ...
The USS Growler is the only nuclear-missile submarine in the US that's open to the public. Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler patrolled seas off the coast of Russia during the Cold War.
If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...