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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....
The German WWII Panzer VIII Maus Tannk Was Specified at 100 Tonnes, Redrawn at 120, and Came Out Near 190. Hitler Ordered 5 Before the Design Was Finished and Wanted 10 a Month. Germany Completed 2 Prototypes, and Neither Ever Fought.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (547+ words) The Soviets found both Maus tank wrecks, took the good turret off one and the good hull off the other, and welded them into a single working tank. It is still on display....
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, 2+ 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, 2+ 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....
81 Years Ago, US Army General George Patton's Line on 'Attack and Attack and Attack' Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (461+ words) The line has never been traced to a speech, a date, a location, or anything Patton wrote. The version that is well attested says almost the same thing. Patton lived for the attack....
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, 21+ 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…...
Centuries Later, Alexander the Great's Best Line on 'Lions and Sheep' Is Still the One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (296+ words) "I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander was regent at 16, king at 20, ruled from Greece to India by 30, and never lost a battle in his life....
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, 22+ 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…...
Centuries Later, Julius Caesar’s Best Line on Pain and Patience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
4+ day, 57+ min ago (649+ words) "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those willing to endure pain with patience." Caesar said it, and was stabbed 23 times on the Ides of March....
64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur's Line on Soldiers and Suffering Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
4+ day, 57+ min ago (420+ words) "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer." MacArthur said it at West Point on 12 May 1962, in the last speech of his life....