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Seaman First Class Calvin Graham Was 12 Years Old Aboard the 45,233-Ton Battleship USS South Dakota at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 14-15 November 1942. Japanese Shellfire Killed 40 of Her Crew That Night.
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (267+ words) USS South Dakota lost electrical power, took repeated hits, and did not score. Twelve miles away, the USS Washington sank the Kirishima — the only one-on-one battleship kill of the American war....
Move Over, Patton: 276 Years Ago, Frederick the Great's Famous Line on Defense Is Still of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (412+ words) Concentration of force was the whole of Frederick's genius. The line is a warning against spreading an army thin enough to be strong nowhere, and it has outlived every war he fought....
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (717+ words) More than 3,000 workers in Norfolk built the battleship USS Alabama around the clock and finished in 30 months — nine months ahead of schedule. She was decommissioned after four and a half years....
Japan's Electromagnetic Railgun Has Fired More Than 100 Shots Without Replacing Its Rails. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 on Its Own Railgun and Shut the Program Down in 2021.
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (709+ words) At times, the electromagnetic railgun has looked like the future of naval warfare. Replacing gunpowder and rocket propulsion with electrical currents that generate magnetic forces sufficient to accelerate a projectile down two conductive rails, the railgun promised to offer so…...
81 Years Ago, US Army General George Patton's Advice on History Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (795+ words) Army quote of the day: “I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history”- General George S. Patton General George S. Patton is known as a figure of history. But he was also thinking a lot about…...
Decades Later, US Army General Dwight D Eisenhower's Line on Sergeants in the Army Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (855+ words) “The Sergeant is the Army.” This quote is often attributed to General/President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who believed that wise and strong leadership was the cornerstone of an effective army. Eisenhower’s path began at the US Military Academy at West…...
A 16-Inch Shell From an Iowa-Class Battleship Weighed 2,700 Pounds and Reached 24 Miles. The Tomahawk the US Navy Bolted On in the 1980s Weighed 992 Pounds and Reached 1,553 Miles.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (692+ words) The heyday of battleships as the “capital ships” of surface warfare is sadly long gone. However, at least in the case of the Iowa-class fast battleships of the United States Navy, the retirement of these battlewagons certainly wasn’t due to…...
Decades Later, US Army General George S. Patton’s Line on Defeat Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (957+ words) "You're never beaten until you admit it." Patton was nearly finished after Sicily. At the Bulge he pivoted 250,000 men 90 degrees and told Eisenhower he could attack in 48 hours....
83 Years Ago, Winston Churchill's Line on War Is Still the One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (630+ words) Military Quote of the Day: “The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat; but they are no less difficult.” – Winston Churchill Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, has long been associated with World War II, for both…...
Decades Later, General George S. Patton's Best US Army Line Is Still the One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (563+ words) "Better to fight for something than live for nothing." US Army General George S. Patton survived two world wars, then died in bed at 60 — 12 days after a road accident in occupied Germany in December 1945....