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1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked to the Salt Pond, returned home and bathed. At 8:30 a.m. barometer 29.55 thermometer 77, wind east northeast

Command of the sea is taken for granted. This is a grave miscalculation.

Dr. Richard Burr McElvein, who spent the years of his retirement in Quissett, died May 25 at the age of 94.

Mussolinis War in the Red Sea: Headache for the British Empire Early in World War II, the Red Sea was a combat zone as the Allied and Axis navies vied for control. Heres What You Need to Know: Italy disputed Allied use of the critical sea route between India and the Middle East, straining the British Empire’s resources. On May 9, 1936, four days after Italian troops entered Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Mussolini appeared on a balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia to proclaim Victor Emman...

Before entering World War II, the U.S. Navy conducted an undeclared war with Nazi Germanys U-Boats. Heres What You Need to Know: A full-scale war between the United States and Germany loomed on the horizon. America was not at war, but American sailors were dying when American-owned ships were torpedoed by German submarines. In 1941, few Americans knew of the destroyers USS  Niblack, USS  Kearny, and USS  Reuben James, but these and other American warships were fighting a grim naval war mont...

The Story of the USS Murphys Long Service in Wartime The destroyer USS Murphy survived a collision on the open sea and served during four amphibious operations in the European Theater. Eighty miles off the coast of New Jersey and 280 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean lies the forward section of a World War II destroyer, where it came to rest more than 60 years ago. According to the USS  Murphy History Project, the warship’s tragic and triumphant story reads “like a chronicle of...