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Japan Hid the Biggest Battleships Ever Built So Well That U. S. Intelligence Still Thought They Had 16-Inch Guns Four Months After One Sank
54+ min ago (122+ words) Rebuilt shipyards, 18-inch guns that nobody believed in, a ship invented just to move the turrets. How Japan built and hid the largest battleships ever made....
The U. S. Navy Laid Down the Iowa-Class Battleship USS Kentucky in 1942 and Never Finished Her. Her Bow Saved a Wounded Sister in 16 Days
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (432+ words) The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1, while the hull lived a stranger life: torn loose by a hurricane, robbed of her bow…...
The U. S. Navy Built USS Midway Too Late for World War II " and It Served for the Next 47 Years
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (1778+ words) USS Midway entered service eight days after Japan's surrender, missing the war that shaped her by a week. Instead of a quiet career, she got a 47-year one " the first air kill over Vietnam, the helicopter evacuation of Saigon, and…...
In 2017 Russian Navy divers pulled an American-built P-39 Airacobra out of an Arctic lake 72 years after it crashed on a 1945 training flight " and where they expected to find the pilot's remains, all that was left was part of his fur-lined boot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (825+ words) Summary and Key Points: More than 70 years after it sank, an American-built P-39 Airacobra was raised from an Arctic lake near Murmansk " one of several Lend-Lease fighters and Sherman tanks recovered from Russian waters decades after the war, some still holding…...
U. S. Army Quote of the Day by General George Patton: "You're Never Beaten Until You Admit It
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (950+ words) General George S. Patton's Third Army of over 250, 000 men pivoted 90 degrees in approximately 48 hours to attack the German flank at the Battle of the Bulge. At a December 19, 1944 crisis meeting, General Patton told Eisenhower: "I can attack with 3 divisions in 48 hours....
Army Quote of the Day by General George Patton: 'You can't run an army without profanity"
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (545+ words) In Sicily 1943, General Patton slapped two American soldiers suffering from combat fatigue, calling them cowards. The incidents got him sidelined for months " he missed the initial Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, as a direct result....
General George Patton Army Quote of the Day: "You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." "
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (526+ words) General Patton believed he had fought past lives as a Roman soldier, a Carthaginian, and a Napoleonic officer " and wrote poetry about it. His obsessive study of military history let him predict Hitler's Ardennes counterattack in advance....
Army Quote of the Day By General Douglas Mac Arthur: 'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. ..'
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (331+ words) In February 1942, Douglas Mac Arthur fled the Philippines and vowed, "I shall return." Two and a half years later, he faced 287, 000 Japanese defenders under General Yamashita and the largest naval battle in history at Leyte Gulf to keep that promise....
Warship Down: Japan Fires Anti-Ship Missiles Outside Its Territory for First Time During Philippine War Drills
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (766+ words) Japan fired anti-ship missiles outside its own territory for the first time on May 6 during the annual Balikatan military exercises in the Philippines. The development represents a significant expansion of Tokyo's military role in the Indo-Pacific amid rising tensions with…...
Army Quote of the Day by "Old Blood and Guts" General George Patton: "To Be A Successful Soldier, You Must Know History
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (484+ words) General George S. Patton said it best: "To be a successful soldier, you must know history." The legendary "Old Blood and Guts" believed his battlefield genius was rooted in his lifelong study of military history'from Roman swordsmanship to Napoleonic warfare. He…...